Dennis the Knowledgable sez:

> To Stuart MacKay's paean to starlings, I'll add that there's a book about them.
>
> The Starling, by Christopher Feare, Oxford University Press, 1984.
>
> There have been many many more recent papers on this fascinating species,
> too. Like Stuart, I have been a starling defender for years (when I was
> quoted in the newspaper as having said "kill 'em all" in Occidental Square,
> it was a response to a problem, not that I don't like them).

Like most introduced pest species, the problem is not with the species
itself! They are fascinating and intellegent critters. Ain't their
fault that they breed like rats (another fascinating introduced species)
over here.

-Don Baccus-