Starlings the curious odyssey of a most hated bird

"Starlings is a first-of-its-kind history of starlings in America, an oddball, love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, an done bird's tenacious will to endure in hostile territory"--

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Main Author: Stark, Mike (Former journalist) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]
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300 |a 238 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations ;  |c 23 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a The Bird Man -- Mr. Schieffelin's Birds -- A Frenzy of Introductions -- The Sparrows -- Across the Sea in Cages -- Lessons from Down Under -- Occupation -- European Origins -- The Skies Transformed -- Appetites -- Sing a Song of Starlings -- Under Siege -- In Defense of Starlings -- How to Kill a Starling -- Blast 'Em With Starling Calls -- Darkness in the Golden State -- Rise of the Bird Men -- Death from Above -- Can't Beat 'em? Eat 'em -- Mapping The Travelers -- Poison Years -- A Forever War -- Spellbound -- Built for Survival. 
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