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noun ˈstɑːlɪŋˈstɑrlɪŋ A gregarious Old World songbird with a straight bill, typically with dark lustrous or iridescent plumage but sometimes brightly coloured. Family Sturnidae (the starling family): many genera and numerous species, in particular the speckled common (or European) starling (Sturnus vulgaris), widely introduced elsewhere. The starling family also includes the mynahs, grackles, and (usually) the oxpeckers Example sentencesExamples - Blackbirds, starlings, green finches, great tits, robins, collared doves and dunnocks are all included in Cumbria's top ten.
- For larger birds such as blackbirds, starlings and song thrushes that feed on insects, food found easily in the summer can be cut off as frost seals the ground.
- Furthermore, in bluethroats, European starlings, and blue tits female choice for males with greater UV reflectance appears to favor structural plumage traits.
- Hundreds of species of birds, such as seagulls, herons, starlings, sparrows and many others, live or often visit mangrove forest areas.
- Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
Origin Old English stærlinc, from stær 'starling' (of Germanic origin) + -ling. noun ˈstɑːlɪŋˈstɑrlɪŋ A wooden pile erected with others around or just upstream of a bridge or pier to protect it from the current or floating objects. Example sentencesExamples - The starling is that portion of the pier which faces the direction of the stream, and acts like the cutwater of a ship.
Origin Late 17th century: perhaps a corruption of dialect staddling 'staddle'. nounˈstärliNGˈstɑrlɪŋ A gregarious Old World songbird with a straight bill, typically with dark lustrous or iridescent plumage but sometimes brightly colored. Family Sturnidae (the starling family): many genera and numerous species, in particular the speckled common (or European) starling (Sturnus vulgaris), widely introduced elsewhere. The starling family also includes the mynahs, grackles, and (usually) the oxpeckers Example sentencesExamples - For larger birds such as blackbirds, starlings and song thrushes that feed on insects, food found easily in the summer can be cut off as frost seals the ground.
- Furthermore, in bluethroats, European starlings, and blue tits female choice for males with greater UV reflectance appears to favor structural plumage traits.
- Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
- Hundreds of species of birds, such as seagulls, herons, starlings, sparrows and many others, live or often visit mangrove forest areas.
- Blackbirds, starlings, green finches, great tits, robins, collared doves and dunnocks are all included in Cumbria's top ten.
Origin Old English stærlinc, from stær ‘starling’ (of Germanic origin) + -ling. nounˈstärliNGˈstɑrlɪŋ A wooden pile erected with others around or just upstream of a bridge or pier to protect it from the current or floating objects. Example sentencesExamples - The starling is that portion of the pier which faces the direction of the stream, and acts like the cutwater of a ship.
Origin Late 17th century: perhaps a corruption of dialect staddling ‘staddle’. |