Mike Stark’s book Starlings is a first-of-its-kind history of starlings in America, an oddball, love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, and one bird’s tenacious will to endure.
“A meticulously researched account of the collision of starlings and humans, starting with the species’ deliberate 1877 introduction to New York City by a wealthy “man of leisure” named Eugene Schieffelin. . . . [Mike Stark] writes in lavish detail of the ecological train wreck that swiftly followed as Schieffelin kept importing crates of starlings, as well as house sparrows, skylarks, nightingales and bullfinches.”—Julie Zickefoose, Wall Street Journal (Limit of 60)
European Starling by Mick Thompson