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Show The starling lr an immigrant c The starling is not a native to North America. The starling began in the U.S. tang the 1980's. An Englishman bought it wise to release 100 starlings over a two year period in New York's Central Park. His idea was that every ra mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry Fourth play should be represented !" the U.S. " was nt until many years later that a study was made on the birds. An attempt, at-tempt, in the eyes of even many bird .lovers, that was made toalate. It took the starling 54 years to establish itself not only from New York to California by from Mexico to Canada to Alaska. Most of the bird species native to North America migrates each spring and fall. The noisy, dirty starling does not migrate. The bird may switch feeding grounds when his food supply becomes limited. In winter starlings generally move from the woodland areas into the cities. The birds move into the cities to winter in chimneys, smokestacks, nooks and crannies of houses, and all sorts of electric elec-tric signs. Before Congress spent $29,500 dollars to install electronic bird-shocking bird-shocking devices on the Supreme Court Building, it was estimated the 35,000 starlings roosted there every night. Starlings are copiers of not only bird calls of other species but can copy '' many of the human whistle sounds. The Starling is one of the most populous species of birds in the U.S. There are over 100 million in North America. |