How To Use Starling In A Sentence
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‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
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Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs
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The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet.
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A starling is a bird common to temperate climates here and in Asia.
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Sparrows, starlings, Indian mynahs and feral pigeons rarely visit Australian gardens, which welcome an array of colourful native birds.
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The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tight as any herring shoal or starling murmuration, they darted this way and that before melting into the naked woods.
Times, Sunday Times
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For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves.
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Soil can be seeded within monoculture grass, or trees can be planted widely apart so that they do not become roosts for mynas and starlings.
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He smells every starling and chipmunk and fox, every lichen and fern and touch-me-not bursting up through dead leaves on his trail.
Moving Among Them
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Some landscapes these days have been reduced to nothing but dandelions and fire ants, knapweed and thistle, where the only remaining wildlife are sparrows, squirrels, and starlings.
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Furthermore, in bluethroats, European starlings, and blue tits female choice for males with greater UV reflectance appears to favor structural plumage traits.
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Higher and higher climbed the starlings, still maintaining tight formation, until the hawk, seeming to realize the futility of its effort, turned and volplaned to earth.
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Native birds, he said, were not at risk because they stayed clear of the starling horde.
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Modern pesticides have killed the insects that feed vast flocks of starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
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The findings emphasised research that suggested house sparrows and starlings were declining, though the reasons for the slump remain unclear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, just metres away, lands one of the most entertaining of wading birds, the starling-sized sanderling.
Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk
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We wanted swifts, but are pleased nonetheless to have finished up with sparrows and starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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When they wheel and dance like miniature starlings, the consequence is that three-dimensional shapes are formed, as tissues invaginate in response to the movements of cells;* or swell or shrink due to local patterns of growth and cell death.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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Just now the skies are busy with birds; rooks and crows grouping and re-grouping in ragged formation, starlings showing off their flock skills, and swifts silver-arrowing round and round.
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Well, when we got all ready to start, I wanted to stay, and I boohooed and boohooed; and Mr. Starling says to master, 'I want your boy to come in the store a minute;'
Chains and Freedom: Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross
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For the last 30 years of his life, he placed a number of bird houses in his garden and established a colony of European Starlings to study their sociobiology, especially polygyny.
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They are the size of a starling with light brown plumage, red markings round the eyes, a crest and an orange-tipped black tail.
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Have no idea why a starling would imitate a pewee.
Grouse Diary Entry
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The starling (sturnus), of which I know not the Malayan name.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Black oil sunflower seeds are relished by chickadees, evening grosbeaks, cardinals and finches, and are less attractive to non-native sparrows and starlings.
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The birds all had black beaks, a sensitive external indicator of the absence of T in the plasma of starlings.
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Starlings can be aggressive and will persistently harass other species to take over nesting cavities.
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Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
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Eagles commonly fly alone: they are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
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Crows, seagulls, collared doves, magpies, and large flocks of starlings - all squawking, hooting and messing on everyone's property.
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The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
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It was this atmosphere that formed the perfect background to a display of starlings gathering at their night-time roost.
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Leopold had a sister Dora who was four years older than he was, and the other member of the household was Aleathea Starling who not only was nursemaid to the two young children but also looked after the family home.
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The great flocks of starlings going to roost together have now gone from the sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of species of birds, such as seagulls, herons, starlings, sparrows and many others, live or often visit mangrove forest areas.
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The sky is full of starlings flying fast and direct to their nest with food in their beak for their young.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few species of hummingbirds and European Starling are known to produce UV hues with coherently scattering melanin arrays in feather barbules.
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Rapid clouds of starlings flew over the seven bridges.
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The kingdom of unloved avians is ruled by the trash triumvirate: House Sparrow, European Starling, and Rock Pigeon.
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He looked out at a pair of starlings hopping over the lawn, their feathers ruffled by the chill breeze.
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The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves, starlings blew about the place like avian litter.
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Thanks to drug manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin, who wanted to naturalize all the birds in Shakespeare, we share the continent with 200 million European starlings.
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Young starlings are noisy in their nests under the eaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Male and female starlings were wild-caught, housed in the laboratory, and implanted with either empty silastic capsules or capsules containing testosterone.
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The starlings were disturbed, swirling around in S-shapes and parabolas and unexpected clusters.
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Many of these, including tiding of magpies, murmuration of starlings, unkindness of ravens, and exaltation of larks, are poetic inventions that one can trace back to the fifteenth century.
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Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
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The atolls of Ontong Java, which are also part of this ecoregion, qualify as a Secondary Area because they provide habitat for an additional species, the atoll starling (Aplonis feadensis), which is also found off of small islands in the Bismarck Archipelago.
Solomon Islands rain forests
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Of course, the adaptable sparrows, starlings, and doves aren't going anywhere; they never do.
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Gone were flocks of starlings feeding along the runway; no kestrels hawking on the infields for small mammals; egrets, herons, crows, gulls, and geese all but disappeared.
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In the case of greenfinches and bullfinches, which, like starlings, have relatively massive outer primaries, molt rate is exaggerated (steeper slope) during the early part of molt and underestimated later.
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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Round the list out with the expected sparrows, cardinals, crows, starlings, doves, and catbirds, and you've got a nice hour of birding.
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Thought I heard a western wood pewee last week, but it was just a starling imitating the pewee song.
Grouse Diary Entry
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The birds, about the same size as a starling and brown with a distinctive head crest, normally travel south for food in winter, but only come to Britain when there are strong north to north-easterly winds.
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In January she had visited Slimbridge, the bird sanctuary on the Severn in Gloucestershire, to witness the famous flights of starlings that swarm there in their tens of thousands before roosting.
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The birds we had seen hitherto consisted chiefly of prairie chicken, lark, snipe, and a small kind of starling that was continuously swarming around us, and was so tame that it would at times sit on our pack animals while on the march.
A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
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Butterfly folks generally consider these ruderal species to be 'junk species,' sort of the way bird watchers think of pigeons and starlings," said lead author Arthur Shapiro.
Scientific Blogging
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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Starlings, however, are often seen as peskier creatures.
In Rome, Starling Stalkers Try to Scare the Birds Out of Town
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Birds such as starlings, blackbirds, thrushes and dunnocks will use a lawn to hunt for worms and insects, so maintain good drainage and limit compaction to help them probe in its surface.
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Walking down what used to be bustling Ivegate, I saw all the white splodges on the flags and in my naivety thought they were the results of the flocks of starlings that used to roost in Bradford.
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In such cases the girl “should bring him to her house under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk .... she should also amuse him for a long time by telling him such stories and doing such things as he may take most delight in.”
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Furthermore, in bluethroats, European starlings, and blue tits female choice for males with greater UV reflectance appears to favor structural plumage traits.
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Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch.
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Blackbirds, starlings, green finches, great tits, robins, collared doves and dunnocks are all included in Cumbria's top ten.
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Back at the start again it was noisy, with starlings, fieldfares, and flocks of young children.
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Accordingly, the Pithamarda should bring the man to her house, under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks, and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk, or of seeing some other spectacle, or the practice of some art; or he may take the woman to the abode of the man.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From The Sanscrit In Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
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A great winter flock of starlings roosted in the trees around the clearing.
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I'm thinking a phoebe, purple martin, starling fluttering up, a kingbird, I have no idea what's on the lowest wire, a nuthatch and a robin.
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Chade had somehow discovered that I had left the castle and had sent Starling to intercept me and de.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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They wish all house sparrows and European starlings would just go away, and I am sure that their attitude regarding non-native ducks and geese is no better.
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This bee ambercat and handicat an sangrail an Paws4thot an Jules an moe an lotje an flooof an SJ an starling an awl teh otters across teh sea – sleeping sweetlee in their liddle beds.
Not a creature waz stirring… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of the birds, there is a kind like starlings, which we call maize thieves, because they do so much damage to the maize.
Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664
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In such cases the girl "should bring him to her house under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks and rams, of hearing the maina (a kind of starling) talk .... she should also amuse him for a long time by telling him such stories and doing such things as he may take most delight in.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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For larger birds such as blackbirds, starlings and song thrushes that feed on insects, food found easily in the summer can be cut off as frost seals the ground.
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The findings emphasised research that suggested house sparrows and starlings were declining, though the reasons for the slump remain unclear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
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Starlings had the pickings from the grass one side of the hairpin road, fieldfares the other.
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A shambling family of starlings on Coll in May, debauched and chaotic and moaning about winter, above a corncrake still stoking up the year with its crex crex song “endorsing summer” as Louis MacNeice says, with the “sourdine in their throat” as Andrew Marvell says;
A Year on the Wing
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The starling was the most common bird spotted around schools until 2009 when it was knocked off by the blackbird.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The kingfisher darts along like an arrow; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings, as it were, swim along, while missel-thrushes use a wild and desultory flight; swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns and quick evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations, like a butterfly.
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V
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Even pestiferous snow geese should be hunted with respect, not shot like rats or starlings.
Bourjaily on Goose Hunting with a Rake
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Silvia could hear the twittering of the young starlings in their nests as their parents went and came carrying food, and the loud and joyful "tirr-a-wee, tirr-a-wee, prooit, tweet!" of the thrushes, and the low currooing of the wood pigeon, and the soft call of the cuckoo, that seemed to come in whenever an interval of silence fitted.
Bird Day; How to prepare for it
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The birds — a mixed flock of red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and starlings — may have hit a power line or vehicles in the dark, LaCour said.
Louisiana has mass bird deaths just days after Arkansas
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Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
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It was not that Coleridge was unaware of his failings – in fact he was horribly conscious of them, particularly his ability to procrastinate: ‘I am a Starling, self-incaged and always in the Moult, and my whole Note is, Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.’
2010 May « Tales from the Reading Room
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Accordingly, the Pithamarda should bring the man to her house, under the pretence of seeing the fights of quails, cocks, and rams, of hearing the mania (a kind of starling) talk, or of seeing some other spectacle, or the practice of some art; or he may take the woman to the abode of the man.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
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The birds, about the same size as a starling and brown with a distinctive head crest, normally travel south for food in winter, but only come to Britain when there are strong north to north-easterly winds.
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House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it.
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Soil can be seeded within monoculture grass, or trees can be planted widely apart so that they do not become roosts for mynas and starlings.
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European Starlings are cavity nesters, and nests are generally located in natural hollows, old woodpecker holes, birdhouses, or building eaves and crevices.
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Starlings have a varied diet, and they are skilled at extracting cranefly larvae, known as leatherjackets, from grass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many birds are attracted by ornamental berries - blackbirds, starlings, thrushes and mistle thrushes are regularly seen in fruiting trees and bushes, and if you are lucky you may also be visited by fieldfares, redwings and even waxwings.
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Living and moving as part of a much larger flock, starlings can also be notoriously greedy birds which is a reason why they are often not as popular with bird lovers over other species as they tend to swoop for food as a flock and leave next to nothing for other birds.
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It is known to have mild effects on a wide range of British birds such as the dunnock, house sparrow, starling and the wood pigeon.
UK garden birds hit by avian pox virus
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Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
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Alien species, such as rats, continue to devastate native species and are believed to been largely responsible for the extinction of the Kosrae crake (Porzana monasa) and the Kosrae starling (Aplonis corvina).
Carolines tropical moist forests
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Asuncion is home to approximately 400 endemic Mariana flying fox (Pteropus mariannus), and 25 bird species, including the Micronesian starling (Aplonis opaca) and the Micronesian honeyeater (Myzomela rubrata).
Marianas tropical dry forests
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I have this week watched starlings, jays and woodpigeons gorging themselves on rowan berries.
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Because of the huge mess left each day by sparrows and starlings.
Christianity Today
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Young starlings are out of the nest - a little early this year, like so much else.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indonesia's massive cage bird trade has also placed a number of species such as Bali Starling and Straw-headed bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus, VU) under serious threat; the latter species, once common across its range, is now confined largely to remote areas.
Biological diversity in Sundaland
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It's was like watching a murmuration of starlings — how do they not hit each other?
Times, Sunday Times
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Although the empty buildings on the now derelict structure are silent by day, they come noisily alive on winter nights with the chirps, whistles, and varied murmurings of starlings - tens of thousands of them.
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Just now the skies are busy with birds; rooks and crows grouping and re-grouping in ragged formation, starlings showing off their flock skills, and swifts silver-arrowing round and round.
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His office is on the speed dial of cities, states and airports swarmed by winged saboteurs, especially the Canada geese, European starlings and European rock pigeons that perch atop the current ornithological terror list.
Bird hit man loves his human-life-saving job
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The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls.
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Starlings have a varied diet, and they are skilled at extracting cranefly larvae, known as leatherjackets, from grass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now we have 10m sparrows and 1.9m starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the last 30 years of his life, he placed a number of bird houses in his garden and established a colony of European Starlings to study their sociobiology, especially polygyny.
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Now when dusk has settled on the camp again we can hear starling chatter.
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Thinking back, I could see their resemblance in some ways to the starlings I knew, though they were notably different in structure, proportions, and behavior.
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Every morning and evening the starlings perform a spectacular aerobatic display known as a murmuration, left.
Times, Sunday Times
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The great flocks of starlings going to roost together have now gone from the sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glasgow-based Simon Starling's Ladder 5.4m is a scaffolded crow's nest on which you can just see welding gear.
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The findings emphasised research that suggested house sparrows and starlings were declining, though the reasons for the slump remain unclear.
Times, Sunday Times
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Changes in soil moisture could be killing off starlings.
The Sun
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A park full of merry hay-makers; gay red and blue waggons; stalwart horses switching off the flies; dark avenues of tall elms; groups of abele, 'tossing their whispering silver to the sun'; and amid them the house, -- a great square red-brick mass, made light and cheerful though by quoins and windows of white Sarsden stone, with high peaked French roofs, broken by louvres and dormers, haunted by a thousand swallows and starlings.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
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So will our cities all end up as energy gluttons dominated by rats, starlings and cockroaches?
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Oystercatchers and starlings pattered on the tideline.
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The stunning list of passerines to be found at the site includes calandra lark, crag martin, rufous - tailed scrub robin, three species of wheatears, blue rock thrush, various species of warblers, rock nuthatch, lesser grey and woodchat shrikes, rose - coloured starling, rock sparrow, black - headed and ortolan buntings, and others.
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Starlings are intelligent and adaptable, and are capable mimics.
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Modern pesticides have killed the insects that feed vast flocks of starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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All wild birds (except pigeons, English sparrows and starlings) are protected by federal and state laws, so it's illegal to trap, kill or poison them.
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I also remembered how the council cured the problem of the starlings and the thought that this could be applied to the people who insist on depositing this gum everywhere crossed my mind.
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New figures have also shown perilous declines in the number of starlings, song thrushes and house sparrows.
Times, Sunday Times
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I managed to pacify her, eventually, with the aid of a little Carnation milk, and the starling got bored with being a telephone and went back to teasing the yellowhammer by imitating his song.
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Because of the huge mess left each day by sparrows and starlings.
Christianity Today
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The grackles and starlings looked especially handsome; I guess the spectacular weather is an excuse for everyone to wear their finery.
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Families of starlings are also invading the wild cherry trees for their fruit, the brown young ones alongside the speckled older birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it.
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We wanted swifts, but are pleased nonetheless to have finished up with sparrows and starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was awakened by the chirping of birds and found four starlings perched outside his window.
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Chade had somehow discovered that I had left the castle and had sent Starling to intercept me and de.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Berry-bearing shrubs such as hawthorn, guelder rose, holly and cotoneaster might attract blackbirds, robins, song thrushes, bullfinches and starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside the city walls, the fields would have supported birds such as starlings, rooks and crows, just as you can see today but in greater abundance.
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Walking down what used to be bustling Ivegate, I saw all the white splodges on the flags and in my naivety thought they were the results of the flocks of starlings that used to roost in Bradford.
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Hawks and doves were temporarily replaced by a flock of starlings, wheeling and voting as one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Starling and others on internal secretions or hormones, and saw at once that the hormone from the testes was the actual agent which constituted the 'influence' assumed by me in 1900.
Hormones and Heredity
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He estimated that this small area was playing host to about 100,000 starlings.
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Hornbills, starlings, vultures, rollers, bee eaters and shrikes typify the ubiquitous 1 avifauna 2 of the Kruger.
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See, I was gonna comment to say that's a grackle, but apparently what I've always known as grackles are actually starlings, and grackles are a different kind of bird entirely.
Crows Birds stealing coins from car wash? - Boing Boing
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They do not chase their parents as the young starlings do, but sit on a twig, calling and waiting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wolfe opens the book by describing the experiment that earned Dupont psychologist Victor Starling a Nobel Prize: when a critical portion of a cat's brain was removed in the lab, the cat entered a "hypermanic" state of sexual arousal, which was then imitated by "control" cats that had not undergone the operation.
Cry Wolfe
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Neddickies, sunbirds, sugar birds, starlings, bokmakieries, Cape robins, bulbuls and several other species are indigenous to this area, and provide excellent birdwatching opportunities.
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The coal tit makes a nifty dash in and out while the dunnock forages underneath with some starlings and a pair of blackbirds.
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We wanted swifts, but are pleased nonetheless to have finished up with sparrows and starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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We know, in fact, that the starling is our greatest mimic, and that he often succeeds in recognizable reproductions of single notes, of phrases, and occasionally of entire songs, as, for instance, that of the blackbird.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
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For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves.
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Jim LaCour said that the grackles, starlings, brown-headed cowbirds and red-winged blackbirds had broken beaks and backs.
Apocalypse now? Mystery bird deaths hit Louisiana
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In the next few days an enormous number of young starlings will be leaving the nest.
Times, Sunday Times
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At last the whole cloud falls down over a knoll – all at once – the next instant the knoll is entirely covered with gray larks, pretty red-gray-white bullfinches, speckled starlings and greenish yellow titmice.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet.
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It was a trickle of thin, mildly musical notes that went continuously on, in the style of a group of singing starlings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hawks and doves were temporarily replaced by a flock of starlings, wheeling and voting as one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tradition asserts that not many years since Timana was much favoured by nutmeg pigeons, now sparsely represented; but the varied honey-eater and a friar bird possessing a most mellow and fluty note, cockatoos and metallic starlings are plentiful.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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In flight, European Starlings can be confused with Purple Martins, but the narrower wings, forked tails, and typical swallow flight of martins distinguish the two.
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Starlings eat a diverse, omnivorous diet of invertebrates, berries and other fruit, grains, and seeds.
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Muscles flexing, waiting, twitching, he has pounced on a starling, dispatched it with a single bite, and carried the limp lifeless thing away.
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It was this atmosphere that formed the perfect background to a display of starlings gathering at their night-time roost.
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Because of the huge mess left each day by sparrows and starlings.
Christianity Today
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Families of starlings are also invading the wild cherry trees for their fruit, the brown young ones alongside the speckled older birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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And over and around the sound of the waters would be the songs of the birds-starling and lark, crow and wren, jackdaw and robin, bluetit and sparrow, nightingale, thrush-all of them daring each other to come encroach on a territory, shouting out love for a mate or desire for one.
The Gates Of Sleep
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But here was a real pro, oozing homespun fireside wisdoms - his beard big and bushy enough to hide a flock of starlings, little round specs, big red boots and rouged cheeks.
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Starlings flitter in the branches of the dead hornbeam by the fence.
Hayden carruth | silence & prepare « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Professor Starling admitted in his evidence that if the anaesthetic passed off, the curarized animal would be unable to move or to show any sign of suffering; there would be no possibility of a dog whining or moaning; "it could not, under curare," he frankly admits.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals
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In non-breeding season, starlings form large flocks capable of much noise and, well, let's just say you don't want to park your car under one of their roosts.
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Typically, when a raptor appears, starlings produce a metallic "bink" call to alert the flock.
Projo.com Projo Local News
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Established roosts of starlings harbor diseases such as blastomycosis, beef measles, and histoplasmosis.
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Of course, we spotted starlings, pigeons, doves, catbirds, grackles, blackbirds, cardinals, robins, blue jays, and mockingbirds, along with the expected three species of woodpecker.
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Anyone who thinks a starling is a pest just don't know anything about how a starling thinks" or something like that.
More Than Human
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The starlings' daily routine in the Park begins at dawn.
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Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs.
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Hawks and doves were temporarily replaced by a flock of starlings, wheeling and voting as one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Birds considered to be endangered or rare are Sri Lanka wood pigeon Columba torringtoni, green-billed coucal Centropus chlororhynchus, Sri Lanka white-headed starling Sturnus senex, Sri Lanka blue magpie Cissa ornata, and ashy-headed babbler Garrulax cinereifrons, all of which are endemic, and red-faced malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus.
Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
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Picking nits, I know, but the car wash thief looks like a starling (not a corvid).
Crows Birds stealing coins from car wash? - Boing Boing
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Chade had somehow discovered that I had left the castle and had sent Starling to intercept me and de.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
