Starling

Name: Starling

Scientific name: Sturnus vulgaris

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 30

What are nature stars?

About: Starlings are a very familiar bird of farmland, parks and gardens. About 20cm long, adult Starlings are a beautiful oily black colour, with purple and green sheens. In the winter they are covered in tiny beige spots. Young Starlings are dark grey-brown, g

How to identify: Unmistakeable

Where: Widespread

Natural Superpowers

  • Predator: 30
  • Agility: 70
  • Rarity: 20
  • Cute factor: 30
  • Traveller: 70

Fantastic fact: During the autumn and winter Starlings gather in enormous flocks to roost in reedbeds, sometimes of more than a million birds!

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc

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  • Catalas
    • Date: 2011-07-19 19:13:02
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    when I look at starlings they ramind me of peckoks dont you think!!!

  • Grassula
    • Date: 2010-12-18 14:01:35
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    STARLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Hawketa
    • Date: 2010-09-16 21:03:43
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    I have starlings visit regularly in my garden

  • Dolphilor
    • Date: 2010-07-24 10:02:48
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    Starlings are really pretty

  • Ottero
    • Date: 2010-04-26 19:43:41
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    Starlings are really cool birds!! I love the calls they make and if you look close you can see the shiny purple and green colours on the feathers

  • Foxalas
    • Date: 2010-02-25 19:30:32
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    Did you see that starling on Autumnwatch 2009 there was a starling that could talk!!!

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