more Starlings Sturnus vulgaris
Smoking is one of their vices (very cold morning).
Stalin wonders about his purple and green iridescent gloss ...
"perhaps I'm a Pigeon?"
Most birds will defer to the Woodpecker when he comes to feed, - but not the greedy Starlings.
They show no respect to the Parakeets either.
Juvenile Starlings are light brown with streaky fronts.
Young Starlings on the turn to adult plumage.
Starling nestlings in the nest - photos thanks to Dr Harsha Vardhan Reddy.
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