On the brink of migrant wave
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Starling
| Starling | Kuldnokk |
During the last week starlings have been seen singly or in small flocks ever more often. It isn’t any longer a few stray occasions – our best-known spring herald is here, the weekend "threatens“ with quite spring-like weather and very soon starlings will make themselves loudly heard.
A beautiful bird with a metallically glistening plumage, yellow beak and pink feet. Differences between male and female bird are in nuances of the eye and beak colouring. The iris of the male is uniformly brown, the iris of the female is circled by a pale ring. The lower beak of the male is bluish or black or sometimes off-white. That of the female pink or pinkish white. First to arrive are the male birds that head for their old nesting territory and even today shyly exercised their singing.
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