< Previous100 COASTMONTHLY.COM | MArCH 2024 BIRD’S EYE VIEW EUROPEAN STARLING STURNUS VULGARIS story and illustration by CHRISTINA MATTISON EBERT In the early 1890s, amateur ornithologist Eugene Schieffelin orchestrated the release of about 60 European starlings into New York City’s Central Park. Since then, these mid-sized passerine birds have exploded in numbers, to the point of being considered a nuisance on account of their abundance and aggression. Like many exceedingly common bird species, we are wont to overlook them — their beauty, their unique traits and, in the case of the starling, their transcendent ability to communicate with one another. Starlings flock by the hundreds and move through the sky in murmurations, the entire group appearing to move in effortless synchronicity as one liquid shape. Murmurations likely protect starlings against predators — a kind of balletic safety-in-numbers tactic. 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