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• A common visitor in summer is the plumcoloured starling, Cinnyricinclus leucogaster, when it is widespread.2003, John Douglas, Kelly White, “Starlings”, in Spectrum Guide to Malawi (Spectrum Guides), Nairobi: Camerapix Publishers International…. From the entry plumcoloured starling
• Starling looked past Carter, to an ukiyo-e woodcut of a Kabuki player.2001, Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil. From the entry ukiyo-e
• A.D.’s beautiful description probably applies to the plumcoloured starling, Cinnyricinclus leucogaster (O.1990, Stephanie J. Alexander, “Natural History Index with Annotations”, in Adulphe Delegorgue, translated by Fleur Webb, Adulphe…. From the entry plumcoloured starling
• Several years ago starlings took over the residential sections for their nightly roostings during the Summer months.1950, The Rotarian, volume 77, number 5, page 12. From the entry summer
• Figure 4.24C shows the hexagonal packing structure of hollow rods responsible for the iridescent violet feathers of the striking violet-backed starling.2011, Jack W. Bradbury, Sandra L[ee] Vehrencamp, “Structural colors”, in Principles of Animal Communication, 2nd edition, Sunderland…. From the entry violet-backed starling
• One of his hens was being attacked by an amethyst starling, plucking her downy feathers to line its nest.2010, Per Wästberg, translated by Tom Geddes, chapter 10, in The Journey of Anders Sparrman, London: Granta, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry amethyst starling
• Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling.2004, Markman Ellis, The Politics of Sensibility, page 74. From the entry make much
• Going perchless also helps keep starlings away.2004, Fern Marshall Bradley, Projects for the birder's garden. From the entry perchless
• Like magic, the frog hip-hopped out of her thoughts and the starlings came fluttering back and Sammy was there.1971 August 4, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 64, column 4. From the entry hip-hop
• Plum-coloured starlings built in the paper tree and from the bougainvillaea we heard the six-noted whistling of the Paradise flycatcher.1970, June Kay, “Far Lamorna”, in The Thirteenth Moon, London: Hutchinson & Co, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry plum-coloured starling
• The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 152. From the entry charm
• When the birds, especially the starlings, ate them in vast quantities, the results were often spectacular — they scuttered everywhere and over everything.2014, Anthony Holten, Of Other Days, [self-published], page 122. From the entry scutter
• Karl and the boys snared all sorts of birds to cook on the spit fire — buntings and starlings, wild geese, mallards, and pigeons.2007, Constance Leeds, The Silver Cup, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry spit fire
• Some starlings are drab, but the incandescent glossy and plum-colored starlings (43) with their petroleum sheen more than make up for it.2000, Melissa Shales, Fodor’s Exploring South Africa, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, →ISBN, page 273. From the entry plum-colored starling
• While the miseries of the pandemic multiplied, they sent me a photograph of a one-legged starling hanging around their bird-feeders that served as their “daily inspiration.”2020 May 28, Susan Gubar, “The Perseverance of André Watts”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry bird-feeder
• The same dynamics can be seen in starlings: On clear winter evenings, murmurations of the tiny blackish birds gather in Rome’s sunset skies, wheeling about like rustling cloth.2013 March 19, Ed Yong, “How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future”, in WIRED, archived from the original…. From the entry murmuration
• The fruit was ripe on this huge old tree, and all day it was alive with parrots, green pigeons, plum-colored starlings, and an assortment of vividly decorated birds.2010, Ron Morkel, “Territorial Soldier”, in Rhodesia: Beginning to End, →ISBN, part 4 (Ronald Norman Morkel (1946- )), page 262. From the entry plum-colored starling
• Other species not protected include "exotic and feral species such as mute swans, graylag geese, muscovy ducks, European starlings, house (English) sparrows, and rock doves (pigeons)."2001 August 31, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry Muscovy duck
• A plum-colored starling whistled from the branches of a flowering baobab, and masked weavers wove nests among the fluffy lavender and yellow lantern flowers in the sicklebush.2001, Catherine Stock, Gugu’s House, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry sicklebush
• So the starlings employ calls which differentiate between aerial and terrestrial predators, and the vervets tune in and decipher them just as effectively as they use their own ‘monkeyspeak’.1992, Rod Preston-Mafham, Ken Preston-Mafham, “Enemies and Defence”, in Primates of the World, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, →ISBN, page…. From the entry monkeyspeak
• I distinguished the rasping whistles of bru-brus, the clarion choruses of red and yellow barbets, the feverish chattering of superb starlings and the harsh squawks of white-headed buffalo weavers.1989, Tom Heaton, In Teleki’s Footsteps: An East African Journey, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry brubru
• She was also busy in the garden where for several days there was a flock of up to thirty plum-coloured starlings along with a crowned hornbill and a brown-hooded kingfisher.1998, William Condry, chapter 16, in Wildflower Safari: The Life of Mary Richards, Llandysul, Ceredigion: Gomer Press, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry plum-coloured starling
• The San's feeders were mobbed with sparrows and jays and the starlings that had just begun to colonize the area, but there was no sign of robin, bobolink or oriole.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297. From the entry bobolink

Meaning of starling

1. noun A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
2. noun The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
3. noun A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.

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How do you use starling in a sentence?

Starling is used as a noun. For example: “Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat across the sky at high speed, like Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide.”

What is a short sentence with starling?

“Going perchless also helps keep starlings away.”

What does starling mean?

Starling means a family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.