Baby Birdorable: European Starling

October 7, 2018 in Baby Birds and Starlings with 2 comments

If you think our Birdorable birds are cute as adults, what about when they are babies? Below are some baby photos (shared via Flickr Creative Commons) of the European Starling.

Across North America, the European Starling is a huge "success" story. Today's population of over 200 million birds can all be traced back to the release of about 100 individuals in New York in the early 1890s. Unfortunately, they compete with native birds, especially those that use cavities for nesting.

In Europe, where they are native, the starling population has suffered declines since the 1980s due to loss of available food sources.

Whether you see these birds as pests or beloved natives, it's hard to deny that they have pretty adult plumage and that they are even cuter when they are chicks.

Baby Starlings in Nest by hedera.baltica (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Baby European Starling by Keith Laverack (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Adult and Baby Starlings — Adult and Baby European Starling by Chris Isherwood (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Mother and Baby Starlings by Airwolfhound (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Adult with Baby Starling by marneejill (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Young Starling by Jo Garbutt (CC BY 2.0)

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Comments

Spurwing Plover on January 29, 2022 at 8:48 AM wrote:

A Starling got loose in my old Apartment from a unused Smoke Stack i captured him and released him Outside

Spurwing Plover on July 22, 2022 at 6:52 AM wrote:

I watched a couple of Starlings gathering nesting material last Spring one took a long dried up plant stem from a garden from the year before with leaf at the end

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