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Bird ID

pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
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I’ve just spotted this bird in the garden and I don’t know what it is. Can anyone help identify, please?




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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2021
    Juvenile Green Woodpecker possibly?  Although I'd expect more speckling ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'd say maybe juvenile starling?
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Fire said:
    I'd say maybe juvenile starling?
    This.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Thank you. Yes, I think it’s a juvenile starling. I was just telling a friend the other day that I had no idea how a young starling looks like. Now I do.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We have lots of young starlings here and the plumage is much darker ... maybe there’s a regional variation. As I said woodpeckers usually have more speckling
    ... youngsters are tricky ... whatever sort they are 😂 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It looks like a very fresh one. They start to darken up and develop speckles quite quickly. Normally at this age they're still hanging around in a big family flock being fed by the adults but you always get one or two that get separated and hang around the garden waiting for the family to realise they've forgotten them.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Young starling - no mistaking the body shape and beak.
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Google lens says 'starling' so it must be.......lol
  • Anna33Anna33 Posts: 316
    Another one to confirm it's a juvenile starling. About 3 weeks ago I had a bevy of them in the garden, where they were basically treating the garden like a creche, with a couple of adults to supervise. It was a lovely sight, about 8 of the little things, but they were also a bit like a hurricane and destroyed everything in sight, breaking bits of twine marking out borders, devouring the food on the feeders, pecking at the lawn copying the adults. It was awesome.
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