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Archive Home > 2003 > November > 14 > Poison cuts back starling numbers

Poison cuts back starling numbers

By Rachel Odell / The Bulletin
November 14, 2003

In an effort to cut back the starling population at the Knott Landfill in southeast Bend, officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture poisoned about 15,000 of the birds last Thursday.

Officials from Wildlife Services, an animal control unit of the agriculture department, mixed a bird....

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