A popular (but probably apocryphal) story says that Eugene Schieffelin released the first starlings in Central Park in 1890 as part of scheme to introduce all of the birds mentioned by Shakespeare to NYC.
Here's the passage anway from Henry the IV:
The king forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer. But I will find him when he is asleep, and in his ear I'll holler 'Mortimer!' Nay I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer, and give it to him to keep his anger still in motion.
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A popular (but probably apocryphal) story says that Eugene Schieffelin released the first starlings in Central Park in 1890 as part of scheme to introduce all of the birds mentioned by Shakespeare to NYC.
Here's the passage anway from Henry the IV:
The king forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer. But I will find him when he is asleep, and in his ear I'll holler 'Mortimer!' Nay I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer, and give it to him to keep his anger still in motion.
I've never read this play but it sounds BOOORING!
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