House sparrows?

[Gringo31]

Black, black birds.  Come in by the hundreds, crap all over the place and can cause issues between their "presence" and the close location of human food crops.  (they might poo in the field)

[lokidog]

That sounds like starlings, slightly irridescent, yellow beak, short and fat?  Kill 'em all!   

[sako223]

Blackbirds have a different demeanor. I have killed thousands of starlings. Once killed a blackbird and realized to late it had a black beak, Actually felt bad.

[Airnip]

Working at the city dump grading for a membrane happened on to a professional. He came in a car to a trap. Trap is a short chicken wire shed with the peak open. There is a board slightly down from the peak that gets potato chips and bread put on it for bait. The birds fly down through the opening get on the board. Jump sideways to take off but hit the wire. Then can't figure how to get around the board back out. Civil servant
collects them in five gallon bucket. Runs a hose from his exhaust pipe into the lid. Puts out more bait. Moves on to the next trap. Steady career type job.

The Boston Shakespeare Society wanted to bring every bird mentioned in Shakespeare to America. Deliberately importing Starlings and Sparrows in my opinion would be about as brilliant as someone missing houseflys from the old country and having some shipped in.

[boneaddict]

Noah had his priorities screwed up a bit.  He could have easily wacked teh skeeter, woodtick, starlings and english sparrow, and we'd all be better for it today.   

[MikeWalking]

One of my Uncles had a farm when I was little in Essex, Ontario about 50 miles North of Detroit. On one summer visit he called me out after diner to a pair of lawn chairs out front and handed me a .22 air rifle.

He had a word for starlings that rhymes with bigger... We would sit out most nights shooting till dark..