The breeding starling is a compact, ... As for the brown, juvenile bird shown in the center of Figure 1 (above), it molts in the summer to its first winter plumage, ...

Winter finally arrives. Some days all gray and gloomy, cold and windy; others with a sharp azure sky, slashed here and there with scudding clouds, the warmth of the sun on one’s face a glorious hint ...

The male and female golden-breasted starling share the same coloring. The edges of the feather above appear iridescent, like a peacock’s. Feathers: Displays of Brilliant Plumage by Robert Clark ...

The Starling (Druid / Sturnus vulgaris). The non-breeding plumage is dark glossy, heavily spotted — most concentrated on the head — with pale brown-edge wing feathers and a dark beak.

Figures show that since 1979, there has been an 85 per cent decrease in the number of starling sightings in every British garden. The number of woodpigeons spotted, however, has increased by an ...