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SpeciesPasseriformesSturnidae
Birds

🐦Common Starling

Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758

For alternative betydninger, se Stær (flertydig). (Se også artikler, som begynder med Stær) Stæren (Sturnus vulgaris) er en spurvefugl, der er udbredt over store dele af verden. Den er kendt for sin smukke sang om foråret og sine store flokke, der især om efteråret danner sort sol. I Danmark er stæren almindelig over hele landet, hvor størstedelen af bestanden er trækfugle, der ankommer i februar og marts. Stæren yngler ofte tæt på mennesker og søger sin føde på enge og græsplæner, men er afhængig af redehuller i f.eks. gamle træer, for at kunne yngle. Ynglebestanden er vurderet som sårbar på den danske rødliste.

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49
Photos
6
Measurements
12
vs you
≈ 1/800th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.08 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Starling

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.08 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.07 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.07 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.13 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
23 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
12 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 5
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Human Modified
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Starling yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familySturnidae
  6. ›genusSturnus
  7. ›speciesSturnus vulgaris
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
All 10 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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More about the Common Starling

Closest relative on this site
🐦‍⬛ Common Blackbird — last shared an ancestor ≈ 31 million years ago.
In other languages
spreeuw (nl), Sturnus vulgaris (es), Étourneau sansonnet (fr), 紫翅椋鸟 (zh), szpak zwyczajny (pl), seregély (hu) … and 26 more languages

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