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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]
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]
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 .
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The starling species familiar to most people in Europe and North America is the common starling, and throughout much of Asia and the Pacific, the common myna is indeed common. Starlings have strong feet, their flight is strong and direct, and they are very gregarious. Their preferred habitat is fairly open country, and they eat insects and fruit.
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]