Metallic Starling

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Esplanade, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_1372 20230311 - adult CLICK for another, Yarrabah, FNE Qld 20191019

Notes: Plumage entirely black with glossy metallic green & purple iridescence. Heavy black bill.
Eye large, bulging, brilliant red. Immature whitish below w. dark streaks; red eye. Juvenile: dark
brown tones to glossy upperparts; whitish below w. profusion of broad dark streaks; eye dark,
changing to buff, yellow, orange before red immature. Large flocks. In forests, parks, gardens.

Range from Morcombe^©

Mission Beach, FNE Qld IMG_6937 20221111 - nest site. CLICK for adults collecting nest materials.

Mission Beach, FNE Qld IMG_7037 20221111

Esplanade, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_5980 20230815 - adult. CLICK for young adult there, 20190729.

Les Davie Park, Cairns North, FN Qld IMG_0909 20200530 - adult

King's Range, Gordonvale, FN Qld IMG_4439 20180210 - juvenile and young adult.

Golf Course, Yorky's Knob, Cairns FNE Qld IMG_2108 20230318 - mostly immatures

Feathers'n'Friends, Julatten, FN Qld IMG_5193 20210309 - juvenile above, immature and juvenile on right: eye colours define.

Feathers'n'Friends, Julatten, FN Qld IMG_5192 20210309 - group resting

Black Mountain Road, Kuranda, FN Qld MVI_3723+3724 20190825 - adults at communal nests

Chilli Beach, Iron Range, CYP, FN Qld MVI_3550 20160917 - murmuration