How Starlings Colonized the United States (and Other Stories)
Jun 6th, 2009 | By ingrid
William Shakespeare gets some bad rap for all of the Starlings. The story (or rumor) goes that some Victorian-era Shakespeare fans — misguided to be sure — hatched a plan to colonize, on U.S. soil, every bird species featured in Shakespeare’s plays.
According to this Scientific American article a group known as the American Acclimatization
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