Taking Flight - Starling
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
Taking Flight - Starling
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
Medium
Photograph - Digitally Enhanced Photograph
Description
A juvenile Starling, with brown plumage, taking flight from a garden Fuchsia bush.
The Starling is one of the UK’s most gregarious birds, it has a strong reputation for its dazzling displays of avian behaviour, the murmuration.
Adult plumage appears black with a metallic sheen, which is speckled with white at certain times of the year.
The colour of the base of the adults yellow beak is blue in males and pink in females.
The normal lifespan of a starling is around 15 years
It is globally threatened and classed as a red listed, endangered species but the cause of this is unknown.
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June 21st, 2021
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