I have been contacted by someone who has recovered 2 baby "Martins" from an abandoned nest in a vent in his house.
Do these look like PMs. I really think he has starlings.
I was about to take them to a rehabilitator until he told me he has seen them going to the lake and getting worms.
Starlings or Martins??
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M.Stephens
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Looks like starling nestlings to me.
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Emil Pampell-Tx
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This photo don't show their legs. If they have long legs, then you know that its not a martin. Actually, I have never seen a baby starling! 
They don't exist at our place
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Looks like baby starlings to me:
http://www.birdsofwestwood.com/images/b ... g-baby.jpg
watch the flash movie here:
http://www.starlingtalk.com/starlingid.htm
http://www.starlingtalk.com/babystarlingphotos.htm
http://www.birdsofwestwood.com/images/b ... g-baby.jpg
watch the flash movie here:
http://www.starlingtalk.com/starlingid.htm
http://www.starlingtalk.com/babystarlingphotos.htm
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2020 - 78 pair
2019 - 80 pair
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Joe Zorn
Starlings, for sure. The bright yellow beak is a giveaway.
PM babies have some light coloring in the beaks, but are mostly black, especially at the tips.
PM babies have some light coloring in the beaks, but are mostly black, especially at the tips.
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If you find baby starlings they do make good pets, very smart. I had a friend who kept two females 10 years later and they are still alive talking and doing tricks. In the US starlings are only good in captivity or dead.
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Baby martins do not have the fuzzy stuff on them. They are totally naked when they first hatch and for the first few days, but even newly hatched starling have bits of the fuzz on them. John
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Joe Zorn
Wow, things have changed on the forum!If you find baby starlings they do make good pets, very smart. I had a friend who kept two females 10 years later and they are still alive talking and doing tricks.
This statement would have caused an explosion of anti-starling commentaries just a couple of years ago!
Good point Joe!Joe Zorn wrote:Wow, things have changed on the forum!If you find baby starlings they do make good pets, very smart. I had a friend who kept two females 10 years later and they are still alive talking and doing tricks.
This statement would have caused an explosion of anti-starling commentaries just a couple of years ago!
However, I think it was the following statement by Julio, that really summed it up:
Julio wrote:In the US starlings are only good in captivity or dead.
