http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Schieffelin
By the by, did you know the existence of every single one of North America’s loud, dirty, smelly, invasive, good-for-nothing starlings is due to the raging idiocy of one Shakespeare-fanboy New Yorker? The Antipodes can breathe a sigh of relief (as we hold our noses) that – unlike so many of its original immigrants – Eugene Schieffelin was never “caught and released” there, to destroy even more ecosystems and natural balances.
I strongly believe Schieffelin’s descendants should be bound into servitude and dispatched to any North American location currently being befouled by a starling flock. (And can we get them start on my parents’ street? Thanks.)