Someone recently posted a few beautiful pictures of a European Starling in our Nature of Things Facebook Group. The post on Facebook reminded me of an article I wrote back in 1995 for the magazine the United States Golf Association published. In the article, I contrasted the human attitude towards starlings to how we seem to feel about “garbage.” The bottom line is that starlings didn’t get to North America by themselves, and all the “garbage” that is filling up our landfills wasn’t created by itself either.

Many exotic and invasive species that we worry about, including the European starling was introduced by people. All of the “garbage” that continues to fill up landfills is also created by people. I guess it is just the nature of things.

Read the 1995 article by clicking The Trash Bird Article