Listeners give this episode 5/5 Starlings! Love them or hate them, European Starlings are here to stay in their introduced range across every continent except Antarctica. Even though they eat crops, crash planes, and evict native birds from their nests these birds have some beautiful singing abilities, display an amazing flying pattern called murmurtions, and may be as smart as crows and ravens! Learn all about the European Starling with Dr. John.
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Thanks to Volume Book store in Buckhannon, West Virginia for producing this episode!
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Special thanks also to the book "Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of of a Most Hated Bird by Mike Stark for great background research https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9781496242020/starlings/
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Intro music by Ricky Pistone and Outro Music by the Sidewalk Slammers
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All bird songs are from xeno-canto.org

Opening call by Olivier Swift

Starling song by Uku Paal

Starling mimicking birds call by Paul Marvin

Starling imitating siren call by Lee Alder

Starling whistle song by Timo Schnabel

Starling chatter by Barnard Collet

Staring Chatter 2 by David Bissett