Councilor Anne Sasbrink is angry about the felling of the trees. “These trees are the roost of a large starling colony that winters here,” she told the council. The creatures return north in the spring. When they stay in Utrecht, they sleep in the trees near De Fakkel, Sasbrink said. In the morning the starlings started their daily search for food, and when they returned in the evening their safe sleeping place was gone.”
Defecating Utrecht starlings had to find another resting place after tree felling: ‘Cutting was inevitable’
