America's first 80 starlings, another unfriendly bird, were introduced to Central Park in 1890 so the park could have all the birds mentioned by Shakespeare.

Schieffelin wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to North America.

Remember the nut who introduced starlings into Central Park because he wanted to see every bird mentioned in Shakespeare?

The incident of the birds mentioned in Richard's "Early life" here is one of several strange events in Richard Gwyn's life.

Take the 108 plant varieties and 60 species of birds mentioned in the plays, evidencing a country background.

Eugene Schieffelin, chairman at the time, allegedly decided all birds mentioned by William Shakespeare should be in North America.

He wanted to introduce to America all the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare.

Schieffelin's motives were as romantic as they were ill fated: he hoped to introduce into North America every bird mentioned by Shakespeare.

Starlings, now considered a pest, were introduced to Central Park so that all the birds mentioned by Shakespeare would nest there.

In the early 1890's, a club of New York Anglophiles thought it would be comforting if all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's plays lived in America.