Bird Watching: European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris, 1 by Grasmussen

Grasmussen wrote:
The European Starling was introduce in New York in 1890. Starling have spread across North America like a plague. They aggressively compete with native species of birds for nesting cavities. They are a pest in the same category as rats and mice in grain farming areas of North America. A few years ago, I was shocked , when a pair started feeding regularly, in the yard next door. The plague had reach Anchorage, Alaska! I was even more disturbed when I discovered half of a discarded hatched egg shell, in the garden, a few weeks later. They were breading in Anchorage, Alaska! Now we have a small resident population.