--- Jim McCoy <jfmccoy at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Perhaps, too, March 16 should be a time of quiet admiration for
> America's
> least loved bird. In truth, the starling is despised
> because it succeeded, because it expanded into every nook and cranny
> of
> North America. (Let's see, now, it's human
> beings who are faulting the starling for this? Have I got that
> right?)

And almost exclusively humans of European decent? Perhaps the irony
(or hypocracy) of the analogy is diluted that the starling doen't
compete primarily by communicable diseases.

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Mike Wagenbach wagen13 at yahoo.com
wagenATuDOTwashingtonDOTedu Seattle WA

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