RAVAGES OF STARLINGS.
An instance of ravages of starlings was mentioned by Mr George Hunter at the meeting of the committee of the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society on Friday morning. Mr Hunter stated that millions of starlings had taken a fancy to settle in his plantation at Porangahau, and he had to send a man with a gun every night or else blue gums which had been planted for twenty-five years would be totally destroyed. The birds settled in millions, and owing to their droppings on the leaves the trees were dying out.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 423, 13 August 1908, Page 3
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95RAVAGES OF STARLINGS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 423, 13 August 1908, Page 3
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