. Economic value of the starling in the United States . Fig. I.—Sweet Corn Damaged by Mixed Flocks ofStarlings and Red-Winged Blackbirds. Only a small portion of the corn in this patch, saved for seed, washarvested, owing to the depredations of birds. Red-winged black-birds were chiefly to Russet Apples Damaged by Starlings. These apples were from the tops of trees in an old orchard near Adelphia, N. J. Some of the damagedfruit showed evidence that the birds returned to an apple opened on a previous visit. ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE STARLING. 33 tively. A resident of Rochelle Park, N. J., w
. Economic value of the starling in the United States . Fig. I.—Sweet Corn Damaged by Mixed Flocks ofStarlings and Red-Winged Blackbirds. Only a small portion of the corn in this patch, saved for seed, washarvested, owing to the depredations of birds. Red-winged black-birds were chiefly to Russet Apples Damaged by Starlings. These apples were from the tops of trees in an old orchard near Adelphia, N. J. Some of the damagedfruit showed evidence that the birds returned to an apple opened on a previous visit. ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE STARLING. 33 tively. A resident of Rochelle Park, N. J., who is well acquaintedwith the starling, asserted that for several years past these birdshad taken toll from his fields. Others also have seen the starlings,while part of a mixed flock, actually feeding on the ears of corn. Damage to field corn was reported less frequently than to sweetcorn, and the reports were subject to the same errors of identificationof birds. On one farm west of West Caldwell, N. J., the starling wasbitterly criticized for its work on a 2 to 3 acre patch. Some timewas spent observing the bird visitants to this field, and it was foundthat English sparrows were busily engaged in tearing down thehusks for an inch or two, as far as their strength allowed, and eatingthe te
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