“As God is my witness, I thought starlings could fly!”
“You’ll notice they don’t fly, so much as plummet.”
OK, that quote is actually about sheep, but seems to apply here too.
“Any bird that does that is an ass - fault’s their own.”
Peckers, they were a bunch of peckers.
Whatever part of their anatomy was at fault for this, I’m sure it wasn’t their ass.
Starling populations are declining in the UK, as well as elsewhere in Europe
From the link:
Obviously, a decisive difference between the US and Europe is that the starling is an introduced, invasive species in the former, and a native species in the latter.
Norris: “We’ll be ok as long as nobody follows Gary”
If we aim at the moon—we may hit a star! Shoot for the moon. If you miss it, you will still land among the stars.
Or just shoot for the ground.
The US has had a serious decline in birds, but it is a rather broad one.