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From: chris@leadsv.UUCP (Chris Salander)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Bird Nest Predation
Summary: arizona, too
Message-ID: <3148@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 19:32:43 GMT
Organization: LMSC-LEADS, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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	With all this discussion of warring bird species, I wanted
to contribute an observation and ask a question.

	Less than two weeks ago I was in Arizona.  There I was 
horrified to see that many of the saguro cactus were occupied by
Starlings.  Three times I watched Starlings attack and drive off
Gila Woodpeckers.  I also saw this happen to a Cactus Wren.  I even
saw a Mourning Dove who had been nesting in a saguro have to fight
a Starling to get back in.


	Most of what I observed was on city or federal property.
Are there any government programs to systematically control or
eliminate the Starling/House Sparrow/Pidgeon scourge?  If not,
is there any way we can encourage the start of such a program?