Re: [OT] photos of million-starling flocks

["Rich Peet" richpeet]

I don't know of another bird that forms the high altitude flocks in
the unison manuvers that starlings do.  I have seen a number of very
large flocks of other species fly in unison but not with the cloud
that starlings form.

It has been about 30 years since starling flocks reached flocks of
over 1,000 in my area.  The reason is that they are considered
invasive aliens by farmers and the USDA.  For a number of years there
has been wide spred poisoning and traping of starling flocks in the
US. The main poison DRC-1339 use to be marketed as "Starlicide".

Rich Peet

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