Description
Body shiny, dark green-black, with brown edges on the wing feathers. When not breeding, body spotted brown and white. Bill yellow, legs black. Body up to 20 cm long.
Starlings were introduced in the 1850s and have become a common pest. In winter, they roost in large flocks. They mainly eat adult and larval insects and other invertebrates, but will also eat small lizards and frogs as well as seeds and nectar.
Author credit: Museum Victoria Sciences Staff / Museum Victoria
Habitat
Woodlands, farmlands and urban areas.
Food
Omnivore
Range
Eastern and southern mainland Australia and Tasmania.
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Sturnidae | | Genus: | Sturnus | | Species: | vulgaris | | Common Name: | Common Starling |
Relatives in same Genus
Purple-backed Starling (S. sturninus)
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