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Alt Zeschdorf (MOL Brandenburg) Singstare🐦

Photo: Gemiwala · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesPasseriformesSturnidae
Birds

🐦Common Starling

Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758

Der Star (Sturnus vulgaris), auch als Gemeiner Star bezeichnet, ist der in Eurasien am weitesten verbreitete und häufigste Vertreter der Familie der Stare (Sturnidae). Durch zahlreiche Einbürgerungen auf anderen Kontinenten ist der Star heute einer der häufigsten Vögel der Welt. Im Niederdeutschen werden Stare Spreen genannt. Der Star war in Deutschland „Vogel des Jahres 2018“.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

Maximum lifespan
23 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
12 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 5
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data quality: acceptable

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

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

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

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

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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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
More photos
Alt Zeschdorf (MOL Brandenburg) SingstareCommon Starling, Blyth (12598795653)2005 2010. Птицы Донецка (C 740) 17
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