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| May 9, 2009 | Staff photo by John Rottet | |
| Starlings busily build a nest inside the end of a support pole for a traffic signal on West Morgan Street at Foster Street in downtown Durham. All the European starlings in North America descended from 100 birds released by Shakespeare enthusiasts in New York's Central Park in the early 1890s, according to the All About Birds guide from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology (www.allaboutbirds.org). Today, European starlings range from Alaska to Florida and northern Mexico, and their population is estimated at more than 200 million birds. | ||
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