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The successful spread of starlings has come at the expense of many native birds that compete with the starling for nest holes in trees. [18] The starlings have also had negative impact on the US economy and ecosystem. [19] European starlings are now considered an invasive species in the United States. [20]
The common starling has about 12 subspecies breeding in open habitats across its native range in temperate Europe and across the Palearctic to western Mongolia, and it has been introduced as an invasive species to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa and Fiji. [2]
Starlings had been introduced in the United States by the mid-1870s. [7] The American Acclimatization Society added another 100 starlings to the total in 1890 and 1891. [ 7 ] By the early 21st century, more than 200 million European starlings had spread throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada .
Starlings have been a fixture in Rome since antiquity, though. “They used to think that the shapes and behavior of the starlings was the gods trying to communicate with humans,” explained Solkær.
The European starling is both highly widespread and extremely eclectic in its habitat, occupying most types of open habitat. Like many other starling species, it has also adapted readily to human-modified habitat, including farmland, orchards, plantations, and urban areas. [3]
A European starling in Central Park, where they were introduced in the late 19th century and became a destructive and widespread invasive species. New York City was the site of several species introductions, including two which became widespread invasive species in the United States: house
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...
A common starling in eastern Siberia. The genus Sturnus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. [1] The genus name Sturnus is Latin for "starling". [2] Of the four species included by Linnaeus, the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is considered the type species. [3]