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quercusatoday at 1:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's weird to see starlings listed as endangered. We seem to have no shortage of the darn things in the US.


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arethuzatoday at 2:07 PM

"Starlings declined by 57% between 1995 and 2023 and they now feature on the Red List of birds of high conservation concern."

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/starling

_whiteCaps_today at 5:30 PM

All thanks to a Shakespeare fan, Eugene Schieffelin.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article...