THE FOOD OF STARLINGS.
?. INVESTIGATIONS ABROAD. 1 The starling has Wn the subject of r much praise and much blame as an insect pest exterminator in this country. For t tome time past Mr. .T. Hammond, of tho i Agricultural Department of Cambridge e University, has been investigating tho e food of certain birds, and his work ino eluded the examination of about 200 star- ; lings. He found that during; the summer months the starling fed almost entirely - on insects (excluding fruit); in the _n.ii- '. tmim. and to a loss extent in (he spring, n it did great damage by eating seed corn. ;. Tho starling, ho thought, did more good t and more harm than the sparrow. Con- - sideriug the good it did by eating insects, .=. he thought' it would bo a pity to advise ii its wholesale destruction, though it should : . be kept in check.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1341, 19 January 1912, Page 8
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146THE FOOD OF STARLINGS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1341, 19 January 1912, Page 8
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