{"id":25394,"date":"2012-11-05T14:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/starling-sturnus-vulgaris\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:14:34","slug":"starling-sturnus-vulgaris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/starling-sturnus-vulgaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Starling Sturnus vulgaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. Starlings occur naturally in the Old World, from Europe, Asia and Africa, to northern Australia and the islands of the tropical Pacific. Several European &amp; Asian species have been introduced to these areas as well as North America, Hawaii and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Common Starling\u00a0<i>Sturnus\u00a0vulgaris<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-267-25394\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-9843\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/starling-sturnus-vulgaris\/starling_01_0_wm.jpg\" title=\"European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)\" alt=\"European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/starling-sturnus-vulgaris\/thumbs\/thumbs_starling_01_0_wm.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-8633\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/starling-sturnus-vulgaris\/starling-0003.jpg\" title=\"Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris\" alt=\"Eurasian Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/starling-sturnus-vulgaris\/thumbs\/thumbs_starling-0003.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Eurasian Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. Starlings occur naturally in the Old World, from Europe, Asia and Africa, to northern Australia and the islands of the tropical Pacific. Several European &amp; Asian species have been introduced to these areas as well as North America, Hawaii and New Zealand. Factsheet: Common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":831404,"parent":17619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[494,495],"class_list":["post-25394","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-starling","tag-sturnus-vulgaris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25394\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}