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European Starling

Baby Birdorable: European Starling

October 7, 2018 in Baby Birds and Starlings with 3 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 Starling
Baby Starling by Audrey (CC BY 2.0)
Baby Starlings in Nest
Baby Starlings in Nest by hedera.baltica (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Baby Starling
Baby Starling by Airwolfhound (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Baby European Starling
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
Mother and Baby Starlings by Airwolfhound (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Adult with Baby Starling
Adult with Baby Starling by marneejill (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Young Starling
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
Jean on May 22, 2026 at 3:57 PM wrote:
My husband is feeding the starlings cat food he's spent 100 $ on cat food the past few weeks. I told him he has to stop but now they're bringing their babies to sit on our fence lined up with their mouths open & the mothers feed them the cat food. I don't think he will stop as long as they keep bringing babies. It's hard to turn away hungry baby birds they are so cute.

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