I'd never grouse about being compared to a cloud of starlings:

“Starlings is both highly readable and deeply entertaining, tracing how starlings went from a solution to a problem. Stark’s book dips and weaves like a starling murmuration...”

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Thx to Orange Blossom Ordinary for an insightful discussion of my book about starlings and our complicated relationship with the wild things around us. Find it here:

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“Particularly in winter ... the starling ... added [a] bit of life in the landscape and a note of joy in the bleakness.” – Ornithologist Frank Chapman, 1907

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“The starling, by all accounts, is the orneriest, cussedest and in every way the most disagreeable and destructive bird known to man.” – San Bernardino Sun, 1960

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“The starling is a sphinx-like bird and ordinarily treats other birds with a sort of contemptuous tolerance.” – Ornithologist Edward Howe Forbush, 1916

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“You can hear the noise of all the wings beating. At times they appeared like a swarm of bees, other times like a truly massive swirling cloud...like colliding galaxies…” – Starling murmuration witness, 2019

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“Chortling, wheezing, gabbling and whistling, they flock as dense as a black storm cloud, casting sarcastic comments on the passerby ... ” – Naturalist Donald Peattie, 1926

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“In spite of his remarkable success as a pioneer, the starling probably has fewer friends than almost any other creature with feathers.” – Biologist and writer Rachel Carson, 1939

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My book, Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird is finally out and I thought I’d share some of the ways they’ve vexed and fascinated over the years. Stand by ...

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Finally diving in here ... Bird lovers and the Starling Curious: My book on the strange history of starlings is heading into world, the product of a minor obsession the past few years. @univnebpress.bsky.social #Books #Birds #Booksky #Birdnerd #Nature #Wildlife #Birding