John Burroughs

Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.

American Author

Arthur Darvill

I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.

English Actor

John Webster

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

English Playwright

Starling refers specifically to a type of bird, not any bird.

Bird Species

In some regions, starlings are considered invasive and can affect local ecosystems.

Invasive Bird

Starlings can be pests, often disturbing crops and livestock in agricultural areas.

Agricultural Pest

 split like that that the male is able to come and feed her so they are very successful in their breed and they can have between one to three chicks and if the season is a good one they'll successfully raise three chicks and we see many many hornbills around next to starlings and dubs hondals are probably the third

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 sort of doing their starling thing. And at night they come together and they create one of the most spectacular things in all of nature, and it's called a murmuration. And scientists that have studied this have said they've never seen an accident. Now, this thing has a function. It protects the birds.

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 and what we're looking at here are examples of synchrony that have to do with defense. When you're small and vulnerable, like these starlings, or like the fish, it helps to swarm to avoid predators, to confuse predators. Let me be quiet for a second because this is so gorgeous.

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 that cooking must be about to leave now those of you unfamiliar with cuckoo biology they obviously never meet their own offspring right so that thing's parents would have laid well its mother would have laid an egg inside the virtual starlings nest and I suspect

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 on here now we were driving along peacefully it's a cool cloudy afternoon and hoping to find something interesting when we've heard some birds alarm calling it was mainly the starlings that clearly were letting us know that there weren't happy

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 one that hangs out near camp but even even that one I haven't seen in a while Kristen Babbitt said all over at the moment around camp they've joined though the horn balls and the starlings and terrorizing us when we're near the kitchen

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 function it protects the birds you can see on the right here there's a predator being chased away by the collective power of the birds and perrolli this is a frightening thing if you're a predator of starlings

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 The universe has already written the poem that you were planning on writing. And this is why you can do nothing but point at the flock of starlings whose bodies rise and fall in inherited choreography,

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 characteristic loud babbling cackle that they do number of starlings have been flying through and I can also hear a gray headed sparrow that hi son I'm not very good at the sparrows

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 it certainly moves the starlings but rome offers plenty of alternative accommodation and the number of winter visitors keeps rising