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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (8023)	3/8/2001 1:14:56 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

As a Shakespeare lover Eugene Scheiffelin wanted to introduce song birds to America around the turn of the century. After a couple of failures he found success with starlings which he introduced in New York's central park. They lay as many as seven eggs and may have two breeding seasons in one year. They like seed and grain and are known to do havoc on the feed bins at feed lots. What they don't eat they foul and in the process they spread disease like crazy. They form large flocks in the thousands (and even millions I heard some place). On one occassion a passenger airplane crashed on take off when a flock of starlings flew up at the end of the runway. They eat the tops off of seedlings in fields ruining the crop. They are extremely competitive with other song birds taking over nests and ultimately replacing more desirable species. There is no restriction on hunting, trapping or poisoning them and yet they have continued to prosper. Besides that, they are ugly.