The first time Kelly Brecht of Forest Hill found seven dead birds in her yard last year, she freaked.‘I thought it was a sign from God that I was being bad,” she said. “I like birds, I have bird feeders. I was really freaking.”
This year, within the last few weeks, she’s had “triple, quadruple the number of dead birds. And stray cats are opening them up and eating them.”
One neighbor cleaned up two garbage bags full of the dead birds, she said.
They are all starlings and they aren’t the most popular of the species..
Starlings aren’t native to the U.S. and they arrived here in a very curious way.
“The European starling was brought to America in the early 1890s by an eccentric Shakespeare fan determined to introduce all the birds mentioned by the Bard on American shores,” John C. Ryan wrote in a piece for the Christian Science Monitor published in 2003. “He released 100 into New York’s Central Park, launching one of the most successful alien-species invasions ever documented.” Source
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