You could justify the term ‘harmful to native species’ for almost every animal. Very few animals are ‘native to North America’. Get over it and just adapt.
Fawn, it’s not me who needs to “get over it”. Starlings are a destructive, invasive species. They are a blight on farms and in suburbs, causing hundreds of millions in damage every year.
There are over 200 million European Starlings in North America now, and the USDA kills well over 1 million every year. Starlings are a long way from being eradicated, but if they weren’t introduced in the first place, we wouldn’t have to worry about them.
care to name a few that are NOT native? (Starlings are already taken.)