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Eugene Schieffelin (29 January 1827, New York, N.Y.〔''Complete American Armoury and Blue Book'', 1907 ed., p. 175.〕 — 15 August 1906, Newport, Rhode Island〔"Eugene Schieffelin Dead," ''The New York Times'', Aug. 16, 1906, p. 7.〕) belonged to the (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society ) and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (''Sturnus vulgaris'') to North America.〔Gup, Ted.("100 Years of the Starling" ). The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2011.〕 ==Starling release== In 1890, he released 100 starlings into New York City’s Central Park. He did the same with another 40 birds in 1891. Schieffelin wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to North America.〔 He may have also been trying to control the same pests that had been annoying him thirty years earlier, when he sponsored the introduction of the house sparrow to North America.〔Edward Tenner, ''Why Things Bite Back'', pp. 152-155, (New York: Vintage Books, 1997).〕 European starlings were not native to North America. Schieffelin imported the starlings from England. Scientists estimate that descendants from those two original released flocks now number at more than (200 million ) residing in the United States. The starlings' wildly successful spread has come at the expense of many native birds that compete with the starling for nest holes in trees.〔("European Starling" ) Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 2 July 2011〕 The starlings have also had negative impact on the US economy and ecosystem 〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27055030〕 His attempts to introduce bullfinches, chaffinches, nightingales, and skylarks were not successful. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eugene Schieffelin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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