Murmuration (Official Video) by Sophie Windsor Clive & Liberty Smith

Quote from: CG6468 on July 20, 2014, 11:51:00 AM
Murmuration (Official Video) by Sophie Windsor Clive & Liberty Smith

I've never understood why starlings are protected as 'songbirds.' They're not even native to North America, but were rather brought here from Europe and released on purpose by some deranged nineteenth-century geek who believed that every bird species mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare should live in North America. (I am not making this up.) The original starter group of 60 birds has swelled to a population of around 150 million, roughly half the number of starlings on the planet. They are invasive, aggressive, noisy, filthy birds that rob and hijack the nests of other birds and cover the landscape under their roosting areas with shit. Also they're quite ugly.

Other than that, I really enjoyed the video! 

Same think with Canada geese. Why the hell are they a protected species?

Quote from: CG6468 on July 20, 2014, 04:36:55 PM
Same think with Canada geese. Why the hell are they a protected species?

Same thing with seagulls. I have a good friend who always calls them 'flying rats,' based not on their anatomy, but on their omnivorous behavior. I have a background in the heavy construction field, and I've worked a couple landfill jobs. I remember the fellow from the state wildlife department who came to count the seagulls that came to feed at the Erie County landfill near Sandusky, OH. He counted something like 5,000 -- every day. They came (it was winter) to feed mainly on chicken bones dumped in the active landfill cell. They spent their afternoons basking in the watery winter sunshine on top of the capped cell to the south. Every step you could take across that landscape involved the snaps of breaking chicken bones and the smush of seagull shit. One blob of that magical substance on the windshield of your vehicle means you will be finding the means to mechanically scrape it off the glass -- no chemical I know of will break it down.