Ileana Calotescu
As soon as spring arrives, the birds that were left in winter return to the park. Today I’ve seen some Starlings in the park. They were nice and offered to take me! 🙂 The starlings come to us early, and are located in the areas near the ponds, rivers, lakes.
I think I’ve talked before about them on the pages of this blog.
It is well adapted to the city life where it can be found in the shady parks with old trees. They look for food on the earth, which is usually made up of worms and insects.The plumage is predominantly blackish with green-violet shades. The tip of the wings and the tail are of dark brown and sprinkled all over the body with white spots.
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Did you know the starling is not a master of nest construction and often prefers to steal the nest of another bird.
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Question of
Did you know the starling is not a master of nest construction and often prefers to steal the nest of another bird.
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Question of
Did you know the starling is not a master of nest construction and often prefers to steal the nest of another bird.
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quite a few birds have adopted this strategy
Thank you!………..
I have watched them. They are very skillful taking peanuts and walnuts. Then they take them somewhere in the woods and hide them. Otherwise they are big scandals :)))
They are skilful birds, indeed! They can easily mimic the song of other birds, rendering almost identical their voice and even sounds that are distinguished around it.
I learned something new about the Starlings.
I’m glad! We always find something to learn here on Virily?
That is the best part of being here. Gaining knowledge.
Urgh I made a mistake … hehe
so the birds I see around here (and try stealing from my trash bin) aren’t Starling …
by mynah birds…
Lovely shot!
The myna is a bird of the starling family.
Lol, I’m confused but now I know … 🙂
I live in San Diego, CA. I have never seen these birds. They look like smaller crows, with sprinkles.
They’re smaller than the crows. They are about 20 cm long.
I love Starlings. I think these are lovely birds. There’s lots of them where I live.
Yes ! They are lovely, but in large numbers they start to bother us!
Yes I did know this and I am glad I rarely see them in my yard because of this reason. They re striking to look at but I don’t want them here. 🙂 Great photo!
I understand you! Starlings are also undesirable and because of the noise they are doing.
Very interesting post with original photos. I did not know the name of this bird. I see her in the park.
Thank you Elenka! We also have them in the park.
Lovely post by the way, thanks for the information and lovely photo
Thank you again , Pamela!
Nice photo of the Starling , I did not know they like to steal other birds nests.
Interesting because my eldest sister Janet put out carefully prescribed Starling boxes for their nests while she and her husband lived in Gisborn
I now don’t know if they used the bird boxes.
Maybe some other bird did.
However, birds have to adapt to different places and it could be that the Starling has to adapt to its environment by stealing other birds nests
That is interesting and I would like to find out.
Thank you, Pamela!
Starlings do not stay in winter in my area because they can not adapt to low temperatures. They migrate to warmer places and come back in the spring. Then they prefer to occupy the already built nests of other birds! I do not know why they do it! Probably they are a little lazy! Who knows??
We have a few birds other than starlings that do that. The Myna does that and so does our native bird the Shinning Cuckoo. I have never seen a Shinning Cuckoo. Maybe some birds are lazy.
I saved a baby bird thrown from it’s nest, and took it to bird rescue.
I don’t know whether it was a Tui or a Myna.