Between 2000 and 2007 this demonstrated falls in the Starling and Sparrow populations, with Great Spotted Woodpeckers and Jackdaws on the increase within the area.
This was eventually sorted out when the skin was identified as belonging to another enigmatic and extinct species – the Mauke Starling Aplonis mavornata.
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Turdidae are unknown from the Society Islands, while the Huahine Starling (Aplonis diluvialis) proves the former existence of Sturnidae.
It is an extinct subspecies of the Tasman Starling (Aplonis fusca), the only other subspecies being the Norfolk Starling which is also extinct.
Its natural habitat is tropical moist forest on volcanic islands, where it is common and more conspicuous than the Polynesian Starling, which is found in the same habitat.
It is closely related to the Common Starling S. vulgaris, but has a much more restricted range, confined to the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa, southernmost France, and on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica.
In 1928 Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews recognized that the plumage of the race from Lord Howe Island was much browner and more greyish than the plumage of the Norfolk Island race and split the species into two forms, the Norfolk Starling (Aplonis fusca fusca), and Lord Howe Starling (Aplonis fusca hulliana).
Following various trials, cost-effective installation methods were developed for OPGW and the Starling problem was resolved, but the no solution was found at that time for the ADSS deterioration problem.
This is supported by recent studies, but together with the Red-billed Starling (Sturnus sericeus) which seems to be its closest living relative it represents an old lineage among the typical mynahs.
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After graduation Heymans worked at the Collège de France (under Prof. E. Gley), the University of Lausanne (under Prof. M. Arthus), the University of Vienna (under Prof. H. H. Meyer), University College London (under Prof. E. H. Starling) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (under Prof. C. F. Wiggers).
Two of his great-grandchildren, Boris Starling (b. 1969) and Belinda Starling (1972–2006) are writers.
For example, she voiced Gloria in Madagascar, Prinses Jasmine in Aladdin, Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994), Robyn Starling in Tom and Jerry: The Movie & Ariel in The Little Mermaid).
The Hoopoe Starling was discovered in 1669 and first described 1783 by Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert.
Comparison with the tarsometatarsi of other Aplonis species shows that the Huahine Starling was the second largest Aplonis species (the largest being the Samoan Starling Aplonis atrifusca).
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According to David Steadman it is possible that the 1774 painting by Georg Forster which depicts a mysterious bird from the island of Raiatea (formerly known as Ulieta) is not of a thrush or a honeyeater, as previously hypothesised, but of a relative of the Huahine Starling.
He gave his name to a number of species, including Encephalartos hildebrandtii, the Hildebrandt's Starling (Hildebrandt's Starling), and Hildebrandt's Francolin (Pternistis hildebrandti), the latter two which he discovered in Kenya in the African Great Lakes region.
Over 200 separate species of birds have been recorded in the reserve including vulnerable species the White-necked Picathartes and Green-tailed Bristlebill and near threatened species the Yellow-casqued Hornbill, Rufous-winged Illadopsis, Copper-tailed Glossy-starling.
Kristy Starling's collaboration "Sending You a Little Christmas" with Jim Brickman was featured on Brickman's CD "Peace", which was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.
This starling breeds on rocky cliffs, outcrops and gorges mainly in the Sahel from Mauretania and Equatorial Guinea to western Sudan.
Starling was chosen from Australia's most elite karate-do athletes to portray the Karate Instructor in this classic Australian movie 'The Coolangatta Gold in 1983, by producer John Weiley; director Igor Auzins and writer Peter Schreck, whereby Starling was noted by the reviewers of respected American Variety (magazine) as having played a most commendable and convincing role.
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It was as an Australian Army officer himself that Paul Starling developed his early leadership skills and the self discipline that helped him build the reputation of Gōjū-ryū via the Sydney Goju Kai Dojo and the Macquarie University Karate Club, into successful traditional Japanese Dojo.
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Along with the Macquarie University Karate Club (established 1970) Sydney Goju Kai members of Paul Starling Shihan trained with, and competed against their Melbourne Goju Kai colleagues.
Cameron constructed a small Swiss chalet with a library; a dairy of rough stones with a thatched roof, where milk products were kept and prepared, and an aviary in the form of a small classical temple with metal netting between the Dorian columns, which was filled with nightingale, goldfinch, starling and quail.
The Pohnpei Starling was discovered by the Polish ethnographer John Stanislaw Kubary (1846–1896) and first described by German ornithologist Otto Finsch in 1876.
Born in Pelaw, Tyne and Wear, Ronnie Starling represented Durham County schools as a youth and began working in the coal mines in the north-east at the age of 14, firstly at Usworth colliery and then Washington Colliery.
Eugene Schieffelin (1827–1906), responsible for introducing the starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America
The original NY cast included Brent Barrett as Hannibal Lecter, Jenn Harris as Clarice, Stephen Bienskie as Buffalo Bill, Deidre Goodwin as Ardelia Mapp, Jeff Hiller, Howard Kaye as Papa Starling, Lucia Spina in a dual role as both Senator and Catherine Martin, Callan Bergmann as Jack Crawford, Harry Bouvy, and Ashlee Dupré.
The Starling resistor was invented by English physiologist Ernest Starling and used in an isolated-heart preparation during work which would later lead to the "Frank–Starling law of the heart".
Hill Mynahs (tropical members of the starling family of birds) are renowned for their ability to mimic the human voice.
There is also a strong emphasis on youth sailing in Optimist, P-Class and Starling dinghies.
In the 1980 novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, it is mentioned that Will Graham was tipped off to the fact that Hannibal Lecter was a murderer from this diagram, and a further reference to the diagram is made by the character Clarice Starling in the sequel novel Hannibal.