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RE: [GWL]: Starlings

Hi -

For those of you who discussed these undesirables in past e-mails -- thought 
I'd share this news story I received today.

Barb Dunn

Dead Birds Rain Down on Southern Ill.

.c The Associated Press

  
BREESE, Ill. (AP) - It was like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie: 
hundreds of dead birds sprawled across JoAnn Thole's lawn. 

``I've got 117 pounds of dead birds - I weighed them,'' Thole said as she 
opened her garage, which she had made into a makeshift bird morgue. 

The European starlings hadn't died of some mysterious disease. They were 
killed by poison distributed by Agriculture Department at the request of 
local farmers, who said the birds had been eating cattle feed and causing 
other problems. 

Kirk Gustad, director of the Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services unit 
in Springfield, said the agency received about two dozen requests from 
Illinois farmers to kill off the starlings. 

This week, thousands of dead birds dotted the streets of Breese, a 
southwestern Illinois town of 4,000. The birds have been seeking out trees to 
sleep in after spending their days eating feed - and poisoned pellets- at 
nearby farms. 

There were so many dead birds last weekend that police Chief Jim Hummert told 
residents to put the carcasses in containers at the curb with their garbage. 

``There are some subdivisions with so many dead birds and so much bird 
droppings that kids can't go out and play,'' Hummert said. 

AP-NY-01-24-02 1855EST

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