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Re: [GWL]: Starlings

I wonder how many owls, hawks, fox, and so on will eat these same poisoned
starlings, and then die?

Tom Ogren
tloallergyfree@earthlink.net

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To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 4:14 PM
Subject: 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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