Starling is common in suburbs, towns, and fields, human settlements, and they have comfortable lives beside and near-human lives. They build a nest on the high tree and a high building too. looking food at grassland and grown and lawns.
Commonly White Starling Asia
Okay, now I share with you, why you do not choose the Starling birds for your pet. One of the reasons they are the expensive pet and more greedy bird either and also likely to wasted food.
1. The Starling birds know have more very fast growth in Europe
In Europe, Starling bird becomes a pest when they have grown very fast one of them can lie three-egg each season they have two seasons of breeding a year. As reported by Garden Birdwatch the Starling more of them become very fast increase on Octobers when they added by the migrant. On Europe’s policy to save the animal, they have a good rule to prohibit taking the bird to dangerous places.
Common Europe Starling
2. Feeding adaptations of Starling usual in the season
Starling birds of species within eating various kinds of food they are eating fruits, insects and sometimes meat. If food is a scarce thing they can cannibalism instinct and fight each other to get food.
The Starling bird when it has much food usually only chooses insects for food like grasshoppers, butterflies, dragonflies, flies, etc.
Not only insects when they have a little bit scare food but around them that are any fruits they might to eat also. Commonly Starling birds like sweet fruits like banana, pineapple, papaya, etc.
Commonly Starling
3. Bad reputations if you wanna take them for pet
Thinks twice if you wanna be Starling for your pet may in Europe and USA uncommon behavior to being wild birds for a pet but in Asia especially in Southeast Asia to take the bird for pet very commonly behavior you can find each house may have a bird pet in their cage.
The Starling behavior is they have a greedy bird when you give them one cup of food they can eat it just a few minutes to make the cup empty.
They can’t stop to find and keep scraping to the foot of cup and make sure the anything on there but they can’t found anything just make wipe up to clean within throw out of food on the cup that happens.
Now you might think again about keeping Starling for your pet make you spend more money to buy wasted expensive to provide their food, particularly fat products to feeders improvident birds.
4. Starling is the glossy birds
One of the reasons many Asians like the Starling may they have glossy colors. But the glossy just have by male Starling. Their colors begin to change to glossy when they grow from juvenile to mature. Especially on the head through the neck, the plumage glossy combines black and blues.
Asian glossy starling image source: animals.sandiegozoo.org
When the breeding season the male starling has more glossy plumage but the female starling is just duller and a little bit dark.
5. Starling is more decrease song
Not even in Asia. In Europe Starling to be a decrease in its song, the populations according to Garden BirdWatch Starling species have a decrease in population from 1987 to 2012 they have gone 80 percent that horrible news for us.
That might cause by the industrial growth effect and the human population when the habitat was gone filled by building and industrial buildings or chemical effect on the environment at soil and waters.
But in Asia, not only do starling have less area of them but also the other birds have the same problem when birds hunting for sale or food increase too fast. The price like Starling in the third country like Indonesia and Thailand reach up to 10 dollars that make them to more catch birds every day.
The bird hunter raised caused by economic factors when some country has the poor problem they can do anything forget the money.
