{"id":247,"date":"2014-10-29T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2014-10-29T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T01:22:21","slug":"year-of-the-starling-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/year-of-the-starling-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Starling in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogelbescherming.nl\">Vogelbescherming Nederland\u00a0<\/a>(BirdLife Netherlands) is promoting\u00a02014 as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sovon.nl\/nl\/jaarvandespreeuw\">Year of the Starling<\/a>. \u00a0Here&#8217;s one of their promotional posters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=248\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-248\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-248 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_0067\" src=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0067.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0067.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0067-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_0067-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Starlings are urban exploiters, nesting in cities and foraging widely in a agricultural fields. They have declined by over 50% in many parts of Europe.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"tw-target-text\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">From 1984 to 2012, the breeding population in the Netherlands decreased by an average of 4% per year. As a result, there currently less than 40% of the population of the mid-eighties . The downward trend has slowed in the last decade, but still exceeds 2% per year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Agricultural intensification has limited formerly abundant foods, and now they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/decline-in-birds-not-just-bees-linked-to-neonicotinoid-pesticides-1.2706542\">faced with\u00a0additional food losses<\/a> caused by\u00a0the neonicotinoid pesticides that are wiping out bees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While not a species of conservation concern in North America, in their native Europe this vulnerable common bird bears watching and protecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vogelbescherming Nederland\u00a0(BirdLife Netherlands) is promoting\u00a02014 as the Year of the Starling. \u00a0Here&#8217;s one of their promotional posters. Starlings are urban exploiters, nesting in cities and foraging widely in a agricultural fields. 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