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European Starling

How can this invasive bird be controlled?

Now they number 200 million in North America

In 1890 people released about 100 birds in New York's Central Park

The European Starling

An invasive species introduced from Europe in the 19th Century

Over 140 million across the nation

The Menace

Found in nearly every county in the US

One of the most abundant songbirds in North America, they can form flocks of several thousand.

Abundant

Their success is detrimental to native birds.

Northern Flicker

Harmful

Tree Swallow

Mountain Bluebird

In British Columbia there is an inverse relationship in nesting success between starlings and Mountainn Bluebirds

They Outcompete Native Birds in Three Ways.

Food Gathering

Successful

Nesting Sites

Number of Young

They can eat a large variety of food in most any habitat.

They are cavity nesters: they build nests in holes in tre...

They are cavity nesters: they build nests in holes in trees or human built structures.

They agressively outcompete native birds for nesting sites.

They agressively outcompete native birds f...

They reproduce in large numbers.

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