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• W140089849 abstract "DRC-1339-treated crickets (Gryllus sp.) were utilized in an attempt to remove starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) nesting and rearing young in the aircraft hangars at the Little Rock Air Center, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Bait ratio of 1 treated to 5 untreated crickets was used. They were placed under airport night lights where foraging birds naturally gathered to feed on insects attracted to these lights. Adult starlings consumed the crickets as well as fed them to their young. Lethal control was achieved on both age classes of bird. Field test results show promise for the development of a management tool to remove unwanted birds rearing young in and around manmade structures. INTRODUCTION With the introduction of the European starling into New York in the 1890's (Pearson 1917) and subsequent rapid range expansion, this pest species has been responsible for a myriad of problems detrimental to man. Starlings have conflicted with agricultural crop and livestock production, helped spread disease and parasites to man and domestic animals, created a nuisance through noise, filth and odor in rural and urban roosting concentrations, competed with native species for food and nesting sites and have been responsible for the loss of human life and property in bird-aircraft conflicts. In the Spring of 1983, starlings were nesting and rearing young in the aircraft hangars at the Little Rock Air Center, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. The birds were destroying the styrofoam and fiberglass insulation in the hangars as well as creating problems from the daily build-up of corrosive bird droppings on the airplanes. *Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildl. Asst. Office, P.O. Box 570, Stuttgart, AR 72160. Additionally, the concentration of birds at the facility constituted an airstrike potential. Unsuccessful attempts to solve the problem led to a request for assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Assistance Office, Stuttgart, Arkansas. Field observations verified that starlings had indeed invaded the hangar system. Pyrotechnics, or any other scaring apparatus would not have been effective in this case as many young had already hatched and the rearingnesting instinct would be too strong to overcome. Thus, it seemed that the only short-term viable solution was to eliminate as many starlings as possible with lethal methods. Physical barriers were recommended as a permanent solution to prevent a recurrence of the problem. The use of a .22 caliber rifle with No. 12 rat shot was also recommended for killing as many adult starlings as possible. Shooting took place during the daytime, but should also have been done with a headlight at night. Success was marginal. During the evaluation, I observed that the fledgling diet supplied by the parents appeared to be predominately insect material, an important protein source for young birds. June beetles (Phyllophaga sp.) comprised a large portion of this prey food. These insects were attracted to night lights, and during the daytime, many dead insects were available for foraging adult starlings under the lights of the facility. To capitalize on this adaptive feeding behavior of the starlings, I treated insects with 98% active ingredient DRC-1339 (3-chloro-p-toluidine hydrochloride) and placed them on the concrete and grassy areas under the night lights. Adults, as well as the young birds, would thus be consuming treated insects. I wish to thank the personnel at the Little Rock Air Center for their participation in testing a new control technique for starlings at their facility." @default.
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• W140089849 title "Removal of Nesting Starlings With DRC-1339" @default.
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