William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 1-23-15
You can blame William, Shakespeare for all those greedy starlings gobbling at your bird feeder.
The species did not live here until, in the 1890s, when Eugene Scheifflen a wealthy New Yorker (1827-1906) released 100 of the birds in New Yorks Central Park as part of a project to bring all the birds mentioned in Shakespeares’ works to the United States.