This year our first patient through the door was a starling. And so, it is the year of the European starling. What that means, we will have to wait and find out…
This bird was struck by a car. It is in treatment for blunt trauma.
Injured European starling
Starlings get a pretty bad rap. They are branded as “invasive”. Even supposedly empirical, dispassionate life histories refer to them as “trash birds”.
Through no agency of their own, they were brought to this country - they are here.
We have no illusions of grandeur about our impact. We don’t make even a dent in populations. We only treat one bird at a time.
We don’t presume to assign worth to this species or that. Each being has value intrinsically.
Happy new year.
