One of North America’s most successful and controversial biological invasions began with a small experiment in New York City’s Central Park. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...
Imagine a wealthy New Yorker standing in Central Park in 1890, opening a few small cages, and letting go of birds that had never before flown over American soil. It seemed like a harmless, even ...
But the North American story behind those birds begins with a much smaller scene: cages being opened in New York's Central ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ecosystems exist in a delicate balance, and rogue elements can easily tip them out of equilibrium. Invasive species already wreak ...
During summer, the European starling has a yellow beak and a glossy black body with iridescence. Photo by Rhododentrites (creativecommons.org/licenses) Species ...
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The summer solstice had barely passed and we were within the first week of July when I saw them. The first day I noticed what I take to be a sign of Autumn: multiple family groups of European ...
Most of you who read my weekly column probably know that both bluebirds and robins lay blue eggs. But these eggs are from neither. These are European starling eggs. European starlings were introduced ...
A Rumpke landfill in Ohio has killed nearly 170,000 animals since 2008 under a federal contract. The waste company says the ...
Ecosystems exist in a delicate balance, and rogue elements can easily tip them out of equilibrium. Invasive species already wreak havoc on the wild spaces and agriculture of New York. The state ...