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The large size of flocks can also cause problems . Common starlings may be sucked into aircraft jet engines , one of the worst instances of this being an incident in Boston in 1960 , when sixty @-@ two people died after a turboprop airliner flew into a flock and plummeted into the sea at Winthrop Harbor .
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Starlings ' droppings can contain the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum , the cause of histoplasmosis in humans . At roosting sites this fungus can thrive in accumulated droppings . There are a number of other infectious diseases that can potentially be transmitted by common starlings to humans , although the potential fo... |
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Because of the damage they do , there have been attempts to control the numbers of both native and introduced populations of common starlings . Within the natural breeding range , this may be affected by legislation . For example , in Spain , this is a species hunted commercially as a food item , and has a close seaso... |
Huge urban roosts in cities can create problems due to the noise and mess made and the smell of the droppings . In 1949 , so many birds landed on the clock hands of London 's Big Ben that it stopped , leading to unsuccessful attempts to disrupt the roosts with netting , repellent chemical on the ledges and broadcasts ... |
Where it is introduced , the common starling is unprotected by legislation , and extensive control plans may be initiated . Common starlings can be prevented from using nest boxes by ensuring that the access holes are smaller than the 1 @.@ 5 in ( 38 mm ) diameter they need , and the removal of perches discourages the... |
Western Australia banned the import of common starlings in 1895 . New flocks arriving from the east are routinely shot , while the less cautious juveniles are trapped and netted . New methods are being developed , such as tagging one bird and tracking it back to establish where other members of the flock roost . Anoth... |
In the United States , common starlings are exempt from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act , which prohibits the taking or killing of migratory birds . No permit is required to remove nests and eggs or kill juveniles or adults . Research was undertaken in 1966 to identify a suitable avicide that would both kill common star... |
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Common starlings may be kept as pets or as laboratory animals . Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz wrote of them in his book King Solomon 's Ring as " the poor man 's dog " and " something to love " , because nestlings are easily obtained from the wild and after careful hand rearing they are straightforward to look aft... |
The common starling 's gift for mimicry has long been recognised . In the medieval Welsh Mabinogion , Branwen tamed a common starling , " taught it words " , and sent it across the Irish Sea with a message to her brothers , Bran and Manawydan , who then sailed from Wales to Ireland to rescue her . Pliny the Elder clai... |
Mozart had a pet common starling which could sing part of his Piano Concerto in G Major ( KV . 453 ) . He had bought it from a shop after hearing it sing a phrase from a work he wrote six weeks previously , which had not yet been performed in public . He became very attached to the bird and arranged an elaborate funer... |
Common starlings are trapped for food in some Mediterranean countries . The meat is tough and of low quality , so it is casseroled or made into pâté . One recipe said it should be stewed " until tender , however long that may be " . Even when correctly prepared , it may still be seen as an acquired taste .
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Short Text Samples from Training Data
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Short Text Samples from Training Data
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SQL Console for Salesforce/wikitext
Retrieves long text entries from the training dataset but doesn't provide meaningful analysis or patterns beyond basic filtering.
SQL Console for Salesforce/wikitext
Retrieves long text entries from a training dataset but doesn't provide meaningful analysis or patterns beyond basic filtering.
Filter Long WikiText Entries
Retrieves long text samples from a training dataset, but the filtering criteria are redundant and only provides basic length-based sampling without deeper analytical insights.
Select Long Texts from Trained Data
Retrieves longer text entries from the dataset, providing a basic filter that could be useful for focusing on more detailed content.
SQL Console for Salesforce/wikitext
Retrieves longer text samples from the dataset, providing a basic filter that could be useful for further analysis but does not offer deep insights.
SQL Console for Salesforce/wikitext
Retrieves text entries longer than 50 characters, providing a basic filter on text length but offering limited analytical insight.
SQL Console for Salesforce/wikitext
Retrieves longer text entries from the dataset, providing a basic filter that could be useful for focusing on more detailed content.
Long WikiText Entries
Retrieves a large number of text samples longer than 100 characters, providing a basic overview of longer entries in the dataset.
SQL Console for Salesforce/wikitext
Retrieves 1000 text entries longer than 100 characters, providing a basic sample of longer texts from the dataset.
Select Long WikiText Entries
Retrieves 100 text samples longer than 100 characters, providing a basic overview of longer entries in the dataset.
Longer Text Samples
Retrieves 10 text samples longer than 94 characters, providing a basic filter on text length.
Long Texts from Wikitext Train
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Filtered WikiText Sentences
The query filters out specific text entries based on length and content, providing a basic selection of well-formed sentences from the dataset.
Filtered WikiText Sentences
The query filters out long, non-empty text entries from the dataset that contain at least two periods and do not start with an equals sign, providing basic filtering of meaningful text content.
SQL Console for Salesforce/wikitext
Removes empty and improperly formatted lines from the dataset, providing a cleaner starting point for further analysis.
Long Texts from Wikitext
Returns a large set of longer texts from the dataset, which might provide some insight into the types of longer entries but lacks specific analysis or pattern identification.