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By John Trott
The Virginia Naturalist
anyone have though them symbols of Shakespeare? It was an organized impulse to import any bird mentioned m Shakespeare’s plays or sonnets that brought them in the first place. What an idea! The‘first introduction was in the late 1880's. The first birds did not survived and the importations continued until the 1920's when they "took" With a vengeance.
In England they are welcomed as part of the company of backyard birds. I here they evolved, adapted and became a part of the birdscape. Here they are a disaster for not only do they deprive native birds of food on snowblled days but they compete for nesting cavities with Red-headed Woodpeckers which have become rare because of them. The feisty Red-belhed Woodpecker can hold his on in a light with a Starling for a nest hole.
One of the major causes for the sharp decline in bluebird populations was Starlings taking over nesting cavities. Fortunately bluebird nest boxes are now designed with a 2 1/2 inch entrance hole. Starlings can't fit themselves into that though I have seen them try it.
No. 1 don’t like Starlings at all. Sturnus vulgaris is how they are known. A synomyn for vulgar in this
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