re: It gives me great joy to see mockingbirds attacking crows on a reguar basis

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I never knew this until a month or so ago but Starlings are native to Europe and are in America because some guy in New York released 100 of them in to Central Park. He wanted every bird that Shakespeare mentioned to be in America.

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As much as starlings seem like pests, they are actually very smart birds. They can be trained to mimic sounds like parrots, etc.