USDA Admits To Poisoining Birds In Yankton, South Dakota

Blackbirds are a native bird that the starlings, "imported by a homesick Englishman", have been been in competition with for years and it just now seems that the blackbird is now repopulating it's normal habitat and I hate to see them poisoned. The starling however being a nasty bird that gets into many places they don't belong and make a very nasty mess, have been known to lay their eggs in others nests for other birds to raise, we don't need, send them back to England. Starlings will quickly multiply and gather up in an area to the point of being a health hazard. Open season on starlings, even if those who have no persenal experience with them think it is cruel. Poisoned a bunch in Hermiston for the protection of stored grain and cattle feed a few years ago, you should had heard the hew and cry from the enlightened city people who know nothing about the laws of nature and the needs of agriculture but still want someone to provide them with food.
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Feed lots have to do in the birds. First, is the consumption of very expensive grain, followed by bringing in disease and leaving droppings loaded with pathogens from outside sources. Otherwise you would not be able to see the cattle for the birds. Alfred Hitchcock must have visited a feed lot prior to producing the movie, "The Birds".