Notorious for dropping packets.

RFC 2549 was written to cope with that

That’s what those are? The internet truly is a filthy place.

African or European packets

That's why you should use Turkey Clutch Protocol rather than Unladen Duck Protocol.

Starling is just the product name. It's still IPoAC under the hood.

Wrong. His actual name is Jimbob, and he's a pretty bird.

We've got a family of nuthatches that set up an extensive neighborhood mesh network. Quite impressive!

Falcon-related packet loss is a recurring issue.

This is even funnier when you imagine Falcon rockets running into Starlink satellites

A small price to pay in return for speed increase!

Sometimes you have to keep repeating a packet, they're very good at it.

Quid pro quo, Clarice

Learn something new every day! I had never heard of RFC 1149[1] and was only familiar with Pigeonrank[2], another short-lived product.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149 [2] https://archive.google/pigeonrank/

Starlings are lower bandwidth than pigeons

They're reliable, provided there's a cherry tree orchard at the destination.

Their Starlord is the key to keeping them on task.

Who?

The RFC-1149 pigeon protocol has its own theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIzLlODqyCE