LONDON’S STERLING PROBLEM
NZPA Special Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 26. Experts of the Home Office have been presented with a new problemhow to persuade great flocks of starlings, which at this season of the year roost on Nelson’s column and many public buildings in the centre of London, to change their habits and sleep elsewhere. The starlings roost in such large numbers that they are becoming a serious nuisance. Experiments, with ultrasonic, waves, which, it was hoped, would induce them to depart, proved a failure and the authorities are against poisoning. Mr Parrinder, chairman of the London Natural Historic Society, estimates that between the end of October and the beginning of March more than 30,000 starlings roost each night around Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, and on the copings of Somerset House. Many of the birds have been ringed, and this has proved that they are permanent residents of London. In the spring and summer months the flocks break up, but reassemble again in the autumn and the winter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27274, 28 December 1949, Page 5
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