Starling

A common starling enjoying the mist from a sprinkler below at the Queens Botanical Garden.

 

Starlings are chunky with short tails and long, slender beaks. In flight, their wings are short and pointed, making them look rather like small, four pointed stars (and thus giving them their name),

At a distance, starlings look black. In summer, they are purplish iridescent with yellow beaks, in fish winter plumage, they are brown, covered in brilliant white spots.

--- allaboutbirds.org

 

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