Not sure there is an issue here. But I found out the hard way, several years ago, the North Carolina Fish and Wildlife Dept is not fond of people 'assuming' things about their regulations. At one time, I seem to remember a line in their regulations that only those species listed were legal to hunt...not listed, then they were protected. And starlings, of course, are not listed. As I said I do plan on running this by them at some point.

But varmint hunters don't have a good year round shotgun target. Crows now have a closed season. The Open Season is very long and generous, the 'closure' was more to appease those Feds who became convinced that crows were migatory birds and needed protection...(Ha!)

But I was curious, assuming one wanted to (to use bunny-hugger terms) murder a helpless mass of poor downtrodden starlings, how you would attract them within range of your shotgun. Like Hunter, I feel the fewer starlings the better, but having them come in on the wing for shotgunning practice, rather than popping them off with .22 seems like it might be a worthy idea.