Wildlife Command Center

🦝 Wildlife Command Center in Action – Opossum Removal

Another day, another wildlife situation handled the right way. This time Malichi and Tim from the Wildlife Command Center team responded to a call from a commercial property where an opossum had found its way into the basement of a building.

Basements can be attractive to wildlife because they offer darkness, shelter, and protection from weather and predators. In this case the opossum had simply wandered into a place it didn’t belong. While opossums are generally harmless and would rather avoid people, having one inside a commercial building is obviously not something businesses want to deal with.

Malichi and Tim approached the situation calmly and professionally, safely capturing and removing the opossum without injury to the animal or risk to the people working in the building. Once secured, the animal was relocated and the team checked the area to make sure there were no additional wildlife concerns or entry points that could allow animals back inside.

This is exactly what the Wildlife Command Center team does every day — solving wildlife problems quickly while keeping both people and animals safe.

When wildlife shows up where it doesn’t belong, it’s good to know there’s a team ready to handle it.

I rescue people from wild animals.

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🐦 How 60 Birds Became a Continental Problem — A Wildlife Command Center Perspective 🏠

Michael Bare Hands Beran here — and this is one of the clearest examples of how a single human decision can reshape an entire ecosystem.

In 1890, a man named Eugene Schieffelin released 60 European starlings into Central Park in New York City. His goal wasn’t agriculture, conservation, or science. It was art. He wanted every bird mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare to exist in North America.

Shakespeare mentioned the starling once.
In one play.
In one line.

From those 60 birds, we now have an estimated 200 million European starlings across North America.

National Invasive Species Awareness Week starts today, and the starling is one of the most visible, loud, and destructive examples of why introductions matter.

European starlings are aggressive cavity nesters. They move into tree holes, vents, soffits, building crevices, and birdhouses — the same spaces needed by at least 85 native North American bird species. The problem is simple: starlings are bigger, more aggressive, and they start nesting earlier than most native birds.

What that looks like in real life is something we see constantly. A pair of Eastern bluebirds spends days building a nest. Then starlings arrive, destroy it, and take over. That same story plays out with tree swallows, Purple Martins, woodpeckers, kestrels, and screech owls. Starlings have contributed to population declines in at least 27 native cavity-nesting species.

A single starling pair can raise two to three broods per year, producing 8 to 18 birds every season. The USDA removes over a million starlings annually — and the population still doesn’t decline.

Here’s the uncomfortable irony: starlings are intelligent birds. They can mimic speech, alarms, and other bird songs. Mozart even kept a pet starling, wrote music for it, and held a funeral when it died.

A highly intelligent bird, released for art, has displaced dozens of native species.

🐦 How homeowners can protect native cavity nesters:
• Use birdhouses with 1.5-inch entrance holes (too small for starlings, perfect for bluebirds and swallows)
• Remove starling nesting material immediately — starlings are not protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
• Use starling-resistant nest box designs
• Avoid suet feeders in spring, which starlings dominate
• Delay opening Purple Martin housing until scouts arrive

Sixty birds. One park. One Shakespeare reference.
Two hundred million starlings later.

I save people from wild animals — and sometimes that means protecting native wildlife from the consequences of human choices.

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