Catching Starlings with a Homemade Bird Trap
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- Опубліковано 26 бер 2015
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After seeing and learning how much damage introduced starlings do to our native woodpeckers, I decided to try my hand at trapping them. I made this trap using 1 inch square cage wire. The trap is baited with small pieces of home made suet and located beneath a suet feeder. I also put an entire suet block in the trap. The starlings enter through a funnel shaped opening but have trouble escaping.
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Thanks for the videos I love them great job keep up the good work.🐦
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I read your website on testing traps. You have very impressive starling capture counts and the cavity nesters thank you! Bird Barrier and others sell a small funnel trap that has a second funnel compartment room. I find this room to be the 2nd level of defense to keeping birds in the trap. However, that is more sparrow sized. Also, trapping high numbers is almost always seasonally dependent. And high numbers usually mean - not too bright fledglings. The Sparrow Trap door (videos on youtube) is designed for catching a bird indoors or catching a decoy. After catching a decoy put it in a funnel trap and then the decoy brings in a baker's dozen. DECOY DECOY DECOY is the key to successful multi-bird trapping.
Toan Bui
The birds and other animals are created for one purpose I believe; some are for our enjoyment some other for our consumsion It depends on your concept of life. But to me to be able to invent the various parts and put them together for one purpose it is some kind of engineer. Keep up the good work. and have more traps shown 2/16/19
Keep up the good work the more you get rid of the more woodpeckers will reproduce , along with nut hatches, and Great Crested Fly catchers...and Purple Martins if you have those.. and Bluebirds.... All the people who will give you grief,, they are completely clueless... I destroy 50- 100 starlings a year and about 500 house sparrows.
+crzrck Ditto!
You know their populations are out of control when people like us can kill dozens!
People are clueless to how the whole invasive species thing goes
crzrck Do you have Martins?
yes I do and blue birds, tree swallows. Flickers, chickadees and for the first time nut hatches.All of them using some sort of nest box
Awesome!
Keep up the good work.
I get nut hatches very rarely at my suet. Are yours in a nest box?
One down and a million to go.
You said but you can make a difference
How do you did that pls show us
Do squirrel and rat traps work, (or can they be adapted with a tunnel,) for starlings? The feathered beasts are bringing their fledglings to my suet feeder, so the time is ripe! I have the patience and the time to trap just one or two at a time. The Tomahawk trap plus shipping is super expensive on the sites I found it.
You may be able to bait the animal trap to get them. Try it and report back. You may catch a native bird but you can release it.
Nice trap!! For some reason every starling and English sparrow that gets within 50 yards of my purple Martin colony instantly dies of lead poisoning. It might be cuz of my Remington 870, 12 gauge shotgun and #8 shotgun shells!!! 😂😂
Glad you are getting them!
Another gun mad American gobshite.
Ok
So what do you do with the trapped starlings. Wouldn't it be easier to pop them with a BB or pellet gun?
They are too smart. With trapping you can catch many. I think i caught 60 in one day once.
Starlings are a protected species, and in worldwide decline, you thicko.Why doesn't someone pop you with a .22 pellet.
Thank you for taking the time to educate people on these destructive birds. I learned the hard way when male house sparrows killed whole families of bluebirds and swallows right in front of my nose. Once you experience that tragedy, you can easily destroy HOSP. How do you get the sparrows out of the trap and what do you use to clip their wings?
You trap them, terrorize them, then kill them? Why not relocate them? Or give them to a rehab like Second Chance. For fuck sake you people are so backwards.
"Oh no an animal killed another animal."
That's nature, buddy. You can kill every "invasive" species and it will continue to happen every second of every hour 7 days a week.
Invasive species are not part of nature. They disrupt nature!
hobo fosho is in everybody's comment 😂😂🤣🤣.
Wish I could have all the house sparrows, starlings, collard doves and pigeons that ya'll catch! ;-) Just ring their necks, hold the wings open upside down against the ground, put one foot on each wing right up against the body, grab the legs, give them a firm pull straight up, cut off the feet at the knees, give it a good wash and its ready for cooking! ;-) Beats the heck out of chicken any day!
Why are you so cruel ?
@@apollonia6656 and exactly, how is taking advantage of whatever opportunity arises, to feed my two young adult challenged Sons and myself, being cruel??? unless of course I'm talking to one of those brainwashed, owl kissing, tree hugging,Marxists.if that is the case, then nevermind. there's no hope trying to talk common sense. I've already raised ALL of my kids, and I no longer have the patience to try and explain it. Suffice it to say, I was raised that nothing ever goes to waste and whatever gifts or resources are provided you, you're to be grateful and not squander them in any way.
Nothing is done to them that is cruel.
Best caliber for starlings? .17HMR or reliable .22 short round?
I do not know. Hopefully someone out there will answer your question.
IF you can get these to land on the ground. They do not get within 100' of me as well.
Please don t hurt he starlings0they make great let's and they talk. So wonderful these sweet birds.
They do make great pets but they also destroy nesting birds and are extremely aggressive. I love starlings of they are kept as pets but not when they kill native birds and destroy their nests.
And then what do you do with them ?
I save these birds as babies fallen from the nest and raise them. They are quite Intelligent birds. They are mimickers. When my birds are hungry and it's feeding time they say "Ready to eat ? " Lol quite funny and they gave me a new hope as I don't have long to live. And with all this, I really don't want to know how to do that. You see.... I believe that all creatures great and small were put here for a reason and I have no desire to pretend to be God. I wish you well with your karma sir. i really hope you are not placed in a cage and then killed. Good luck !!!
By the way ...Since you kill them, I hope you have the fortitude to at least eat them.
Thank you , can't you find another way ? Like scaring them somehow ?
+Backyard Birds ..I kill about 50 or more of these every year.Whats amazing is how many more cavity nesters will eventually show up.. After 10 yrs,,I now have Great Crested Fly catchers for the past 2 yrs..
The Family Ghost
.. it doesnt work this way..Starlings and House sparrows evolved in Europe. All the birds there are adapted to living together.. These birds have devastated the population our native cavity nesting birds.. People just do not or refuse to see this.
Every bird has a right to live. Starlings are wonderful beautiful birds. They help reduce bugs. They mimic human voices and whistles. They also make great pets!
They are here for a reason just like every other bird/mammal. You should not trap and kill them. If they happen to die it should be naturally as nature intended.
Jo Dee RIGHT. These birds are pests.
It happened over 200 years ago you stupid fucks. Let nature adapt. It's normal for things to go extinct, or have to move eventually.
Not sure where you get your information but things don't adapt in 200 years. Maybe 200 thousand years. Starlings are extremely aggressive Invaders. This explains their nature and negative impact.ua-cam.com/video/oqhBSXHBHPI/v-deo.html
Backyard Birds No shit. The earth hasn't even had time to adapt to the human problem destroying the entire environment. Maybe we should consider working in our own species problems before blaming another.
How can they be so dumb that they don't notice the exit/entry point once they get in?
I fkn hate these birds and mynas.
They will find way out in time but it works pretty well.
Doesn't show me anything. Crap DIY
This was an early model. I made another video on building a trap. Search my channel for starling trap.
Do you have outdoor cats? They are invasive and damaging to wildlife too, I hope you trap and get rid of any outdoor cats too,
Ocassionally I see a cat. I do not have cats of my own. I agree feral cats are a big problem.
Backyard Birds. Well, you can believe me. I am going to be a wildlife vet and I have worked with a wildlife rehab group for years. I got all the calls for a large city and have heard and just about everything that happens to wildlife. Starlings and sparrows can be bothersome for some native species, but nothing near the damage cats and humans cause. Every sparrow and starling taken out of the population by traps, means the chances the hawks and cats end up with a bluebird or purple martin is much higher.
That really doesn't make sense to me. Allow the starlings to kill the flickers so a cat can eat a starling? Or allow a house sparrow to kill a bluebird so a cat can eat a house sparrow?
She is clueless. Don't waste your time with her.
Starlings eat BUGS mostly,..they don't even like fruit and berries much at all.
=They actually HELP crops by keeping the bugs off!!
Honestly Speaking, you need to start by changing your user name; it’s a farce. You have no idea what you’re talking about. Starlings are vicious invaders that devour most of the food we put out for native birds, and they attack and chase native birds from feeders and traditional nesting spots. Culling and eventual elimination is the only solution for this non-native bird.
Actually starlings love fruit. In the winter they devour ornamental pear fruit and spread the invasive plant far and wide!
WOW DUMB ASS
Sick f people I have a pet starling that can talk
I hear they are wonderful pets. But wreak havoc on the wild. I've had them kill birds so they could nest.
One can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals go straight to hell
Honestly Speaking Actually, it’s the starlings that will go straight to hell. As soon as I get my trap I plan to send as many there as possible.
@@maureen3134 TERRIBLE,..Whatever you do will come back to you.
Honestly Speaking I hope what comes back to me are the beautiful native birds that belong here, so thank you for your kind words of encouragement😁
You are definitely saving many native birds from the starling that was introduced to North America.
Thanks. I've protected many many birds from the aggressive European starling!
why why why... let them free please
+Marieange Vanderroost because starlings kill and destroy native cavity nesters they are considered a destructive non native species..
+crzrck Well said. Thanks for helping to educate people.
They have been here since the early 1800's. This isn't a new thing that's happening. Let nature adapt to itself please, and stop fucking around with the natural order of predators vs prey. Thanks.
Why??? Why do you kill them? I know there's a lot in the U.S. but God created these birds. Never in my life would I kill one of them. :'(
They are aggressive killers of baby birds and robbers of nesting sites for ecologically healthy species. Each time a starling is killed you are actually saving the lives of innocent native baby birds.
because starling birds are invasive species, they needs to be killed to reduce the numbers of baby birds being killed by starling birds, and i get them in my garage, i shoot them if they cannot find their way out
It happened in the 1800's. Its been at least 200 years. Get the fuck over it and let nature decide what it's doing you autistic sociopaths. "Oh no bird killing less intelligent bird." That's normal. It's called nature.