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The Ubiquitous European Starling: The Bird We Love to Hate

10,000 Birds

The American Acclimatization Society was a group founded in New York City in 1871 dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for “both economic and cultural reasons. 1 ” By 1877 New York pharmacist Eugene Schieffelin, an avid admirer of Shakespeare, was the society’s driving force.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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He has consulted unpublished interviews and diaries, government documents, local newspapers, archival collections, and hundreds of books and magazines, mostly on history politics but also on other areas that impacted McLean’s life, like livestock farming. I think birders will enjoy reading this political history of the MBTA.