The starling is a useful and singing bird

Starling - bird belonging to the ordersparrows, starling family. The length of the body is about 23 cm, and the weight is about 75 g. At the expense of the short neck and massive body, it seems clumsy. His legs are strong with big

curled claws.Bill is long, thinish, yellow, slightly lowered downwards. Tail short, straight. The color of feathers in spring is starling, black with a metallic sheen. A bird, the description of the plumage of which depends on the season, becomes black with white specks by the autumn.

The benefits of ordinary starling, which wasSpeech above, they know almost everything since childhood. In the spring, they walk in the fields, parks and gardens, looking for and eating insects and larvae. In summer, they feed on caterpillars and beetles, and during the feeding period, the chicks arrive at the nest about 300 times a day, bringing several bugs each time.

Common starling - migratory bird, winterflying away to warm countries, as a rule, to the north of Africa or the south of Europe. After such journeys in the repertoire of this singing bird, various “potpourri” appear, including “African melodies” borrowed from birds during the wintering season.

Many people associate starling withnesting box, and this is a forest bird, arranging their nests in hollows in the trees. But it is not easy to find them. And a person wants to settle this useful bird to himself, so he establishes birdhouses. A "work" to her near the human housing is always.

In addition to the ordinary, interestingThe representative of this family is the pink starling - a bird that fully justifies its name. It settles near the steppes, desert or semi-desert plains, as it feeds mainly on locusts. Of course, if it is not there, it can eat other insects. But locust is the main thing. For her, he is able to fly a long distance. A day can eat up to 200 grams of the locust (twice as much as its weight) pink starling. Bird and offspring feeds her.

These birds are moving in dense flocks. From a distance it seems that this is some kind of pink cloud. Down on the ground, they continue to move in one direction,

collecting and eating insects on the run.The pink starling is a peace-loving bird, there are no fights and quarrels between them. They settle in colonies of several hundred pairs. Nests are arranged in the crevices of rocks, in various holes, between stones.

And this family also includes earringsthe starling is a bird that is only in size similar to its congeners, living exclusively in Africa. The adjective in the title was given to the fact that during the breeding season, the males on the head appear fleshy growths that resemble earrings. They build nests on trees, not in hollows, using many dry twigs, creating a dome-shaped structure. There can be many such "houses" on one plant, since this bird is also colonial. It feeds only locust cattle starling. The bird breeds even chicks at a time when these insects stop moving and stop for reproduction. With the resumption of locust movement, the birds are removed and follow.

Such here are starlings, but they are all certainly useful for humans. In some nations it is even considered a crime to kill this wonderful bird.