In 1890 and 1891, New York pharmaceutical manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin released about 100 European starlings into Central Park, and their descendants spread across North America, reaching roughly 200 million birds within a century before declining to a more recent estimate of about 85 million to 93 million

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Lauren Fugate Eugene Schieffelin John Macneill Miller George Linz Natalie Hofmeister Edwin Way Teale Cornell Lab Of Ornithology American Acclimatization Society American Breeding Bird National Wildlife Research Center New Yorker, United States American America

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Tue, 1 September 2026
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  In 1890 and 1891, New York pharmaceutical manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin released about 100 European starlings into Central Park, and their descendants spread across North America, reaching roughly 200 million birds within a century before declining to a more recent estimate of about 85 million to 93 million
  A beloved origin story about Shakespeare and starlings turns out to be mostly myth, obscuring what actually happened in Central Park.