The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is the most despised bird in North America by conservationists and ornithologists alike. Starlings are a nonnative species and are considered invasive. But how did they end up here in the first place, and how did they become one of America’s most numerous songbirds?A late 19th-century New York pharmacist named Eugene Schieffelin, also a chairman of the…
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