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Starling
Name: Starling
Scientific name: Sturnus vulgaris
Category: Birds
Nature Stars: 30
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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- Date: 2018-02-06 18:27:49
- Tailed_ulus
Report abusejust seen a whole load of these beauty's while on the school bus. a migration of them i think they surrounded all the windows!
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the farm were I live is filed with starlings. they come up every night and sleep in my garden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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the farm were I live is filed with starlings. they come up every night and sleep in my garden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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the farm were I live is filed with starlings. they come up every night and sleep in my garden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think it is very detailed!!!! I like it!!!!!!!!!!
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when I look at starlings they ramind me of peckoks dont you think!!!
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STARLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have starlings visit regularly in my garden
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Starlings are really pretty
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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
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