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Starling

“There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.”

Saturday 24.8.19

Shared our breakfast table this morning with a European Starling at Central Park’s Boathouse Restaurant. 

In the 1860’s, sixty of these guys were imported from England and released in Central Park to celebrate William Shakespeare’s play Henry V part 1. Now their descendants number in the hundred of millions...

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Credit: Matthew Reiley