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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:12:46 -0600 (MDT)

It was submitted by Kris Purdy.
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Subject: 1939 Newsflash: Starlings Arrive in Utah!

Email_Address: kristinpurdy at comcast.net

Message: I was doing some research last night and came across this blurb in the Condor, Vol. 41, No. 4, July - August 1939: Starlings Arrive in Utah

Thirteen Starlings (Sturgis vulgaris) were discovered feeding with a flockof Brewer blackbirds about the corrals on the Jeremy Ranch, in Salt Lake County, by Mr. Thayer Evans, February 26, 1939. Mr. Evans killed one of the birds for identification, mounted it, and presented it to the University of Utah. I observed these birds on several occasions thereafter. Their attitude
was decidedly like that of a meadowlark rather than that of a blackbird. The short tail, quick wing beat, and long glides to alight, are characters that differentiate them when in a flock of Brewer blackbirds. --C.W.Lockerbie, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 15, 1939.

Kris
   
   
   

       
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