Photo by BarrytheBirder
Adult Starlings are normally a glossy black/purple but at this time of year they seem to be covered in hundreds of white spots. The white spots appear at the start of winter and wear off in the spring and it is the juveniles and non-breeding adults that have these spots. There are over 200 million of this bird species between Alaska and Mexico. Migrating starlings can occur in flocks of up to 100,000 birds, while up to 1 million can be found, at night, in communal roosts!
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