European Starlings VS Red Headed Woopeckers

[Duck Cop]

Has anyone noticed any conflicts with Red Headed Woodpeckers

nesting failures due to European Starlings.

For the record I feel it is Incumbent on me to set it straight.

I predict we will lose the Red Headed Woodpecker due to this

Non Native, highly invasive bird species....the European Starling.

Why? Because the Red Headed Woodpecker did not evolve

with the European Starling.

Fossils of the Red Headed Woodpecker have been found in

Virginia, Florida and Illinois which date back more than 2.5 million

years ago to the Neocene Age.

Approximately 75 European Starlings were improperly brought into the United

States in 1890 by a German immigrant lunatic obsessed with

writings of William Shakespeare. He released the Starlings in Central Park

in New York City. The Starlings flourished across the U.S. to over 200

million birds. They have caused over 400 million dollars damage to

farmer's crop losses and disease spread to livestock annually.

Also, on, or about 1960 I remember as a young teenager just entering

high school.....I was watching the national news on TV with my Dad.

It showed an Eastern Airlines passenger plane taking off from the

airport in Boston. A flock of Starlings flew into the plane's flight path

Jamming both engines. The plane promptly went down and crashed.

62 people died. True story.  Daniel