Has anyone noticed any conflicts with Red Headed Woodpeckers
nesting failures due to European Starlings.
For the record I feel it is Incumbent on me to set it straight.
I predict we will lose the Red Headed Woodpecker due to this
Non Native, highly invasive bird species....the European Starling.
Why? Because the Red Headed Woodpecker did not evolve
with the European Starling.
Fossils of the Red Headed Woodpecker have been found in
Virginia, Florida and Illinois which date back more than 2.5 million
years ago to the Neocene Age.
Approximately 75 European Starlings were improperly brought into the United
States in 1890 by a German immigrant lunatic obsessed with
writings of William Shakespeare. He released the Starlings in Central Park
in New York City. The Starlings flourished across the U.S. to over 200
million birds. They have caused over 400 million dollars damage to
farmer's crop losses and disease spread to livestock annually.
Also, on, or about 1960 I remember as a young teenager just entering
high school.....I was watching the national news on TV with my Dad.
It showed an Eastern Airlines passenger plane taking off from the
airport in Boston. A flock of Starlings flew into the plane's flight path
Jamming both engines. The plane promptly went down and crashed.
62 people died. True story. Daniel
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