Starlings

Auteur

Mike Stark is a longtime journalist and author. His previous nonfiction books include the award-winning Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast (Bison Books, 2022) and Wrecked in Yellowstone: Greed, Obsession, and the Untold Story of Yellowstone’s Most Infamous Shipwreck. His first novel, The Derelict Light (Bison Books), was published in 2023. He is the creative director for the Center for Biological Diversity and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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This first-of-its-kind history of starlings in America reveals an oddball, love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, and one bird’s tenacious will to endure in hostile territory.

Contenu

List of Illustrations

1. The Bird Man Cometh

2. Mr. Schieffelin’s Birds

3. A Frenzy of Introductions

4. The Sparrows

5. Across the Sea in Cages

6. Lessons from Down Under

7. Occupation

8. European Origins

9. The Skies Transformed

10. Appetites

11. Sing a Song of Starlings

12. Under Siege

13. In Defense of Starlings

14. How to Kill a Starling

15. Blast ’Em with Starling Calls

16. Darkness in the Golden State

17. Rise of the Bird Men

18. Death from Above

19. Can’t Beat ’Em? Eat ’Em

20. Mapping the Travelers

21. Poison Years

22. A Forever War

23. Spellbound

24. Built for Survival

    Epilogue

    Acknowledgments

    Notes