Have you ever noticed those glossy, dark-colored birds that seem ... copying other birds and even non-bird sounds. Starling songs can include many different sounds, like warbles, whistles, purrs ...

Some users identified the bird as Starling, which are believed to be excellent mimics. They are able to imitate the calls of other birds, mechanical sounds ... turn dark and glossy in summer.

sounds like a song doesn’t it? The reality is just as lovely as you would imagine. Starlings are small- to medium-sized birds that have short tails and pointed heads with glossy black feathers ...

In what’s known, somewhat ominously, as the “The Black Sun” (Sort Sol in Danish), droves of migrating starlings perform ... of the smallish, glossy black birds perform for up to 45 minutes ...

These are the dullest of all glossy starlings appearing black ... is a sustained jumble of trilling sounds and rather harsh piping notes and imitates other bird calls. Breeding season is August ...

This is the spectacular moment hundreds of starlings ... they are very glossy with a sheen of purples and greens. Even though the species remains one of the most common garden birds, its decline ...

The Starling (Druid / Sturnus vulgaris). The non-breeding plumage is dark glossy ... mimics including man-made sounds. There are two main types of bird call: the contact call and the alarm ...

THE male redwing starling is entirely glossy blue/black ... with mellow sweet whistles that sound like ‘peeeo, wheo, teetoo’. This striking bird is common in mountains, cliffs, gorges ...

Darlington ecologist Ian Bond expresses his admiration for the much maligned bird. THE sound was unmistakeable ... as Hildebrandt’s starling and the various species of glossy starlings.

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree ...