Editing Common starling (section)

==== West Indies ====
In 1901, the inhabitants of [[Saint Kitts]] petitioned the Colonial Secretary for a ″government grant of starlings to exterminate″ an outbreak of grasshoppers which was causing enormous damage to their crops.<ref>{{cite news|title=Starlings v Grasshoppers|work=The Cornubian and Redruth Times|date=15 February 1901|page=3}}</ref> The common starling was introduced to Jamaica in 1903, and the Bahamas and Cuba were colonised naturally from the US.<ref name=linz>{{cite journal | last1= Linz | first1= George M | last2= Homan | first2= H Jeffrey | last3= Gaulker | first3= Shannon M | last4= Penry | first4= Linda B | last5= Bleier | first5= William J | year= 2007 | title= European starlings: a review of an invasive species with far-reaching impacts | journal= Managing Vertebrate Invasive Species | volume= Paper 24 | pages= 378–386 | url= http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/catalog/17532 | access-date= 2013-01-22 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120849/http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/catalog/17532 | archive-date= 2014-05-17 | url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name= lever>Lever (2010) p. 197.</ref> This bird is fairly common but local in Jamaica, [[Grand Bahama]] and [[Bimini]], and is rare in the rest of the Bahamas and eastern Cuba.<ref name= Raffaele>Raffaele ''et al'' (2003) p. 126.</ref><ref name= Arlott>Arlott (2010) p. 126., "'''Status and range:''' Introduced. Fairly common, but local. In Jamaica, and on Grand Bahama and Biminis in Bahamas. Rare elsewhere in Bahamas and eastern Cuba October through March."</ref>