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Research - Developing Science-based Solutions to Blackbird and Starling Conflicts

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Starling with antenaeWildlife Services’ National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) conducts research and investigational activities on a wide variety of wildlife damage issues.  NWRC Scientists at the North Dakota Field Station focus much of their efforts on developing methods for management of blackbirds and starlings.  WS has contributed research papers and reports to the Management of North American Blackbirds Symposium at The Wildlife Society’s 2002 Annual Conference, and the Cattail Management Symposium jointly sponsored by WS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and North Dakota State University in 1992.

Learn more about research conducted by WS NWRC

Measuring blackbird damage to sunflowersLearn more about blackbird and starling research conducted at the North Dakota Field Station


Click here
for a 2-page Factsheet on WS NWRC research related to blackbirds and starlings in sunflower, rice and corn fields, feedlots and dairies.

Click here for the 2010 dairy facilities fact sheet.

Learn more about blackbird damage to sunflowers in the
northern Great Plains

Starlings in a Michigan dairy
 
 
 
 


 

Last Modified: October 11, 2011