Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1916 — Bird on Trial For Its Life. [ARTICLE]

Bird on Trial For Its Life.

It is reported that the English starling, a harmless, grub-eating bird when Imported to this country in 1890, has become predatory in its habits and is rapidly driving out the native songsters, in addition to eating all fruits. So general have become the complaints that the department of agriculture at Washington has sent an expert”TfiveßtfgatQr gin a study of th# bird with a view to exoneration or extermination. The starling has prospered, until today he nearly doubles in number any native bird .In Connecticut or Rhode Island and Is routing the native birds from their resting and feeding places.