Instead of an Attenborough nature show clip this Saturday, here’s another homemade YouTube clip of an excellent mimic:

People consider starlings pests, but I don’t. The avifauna around here would be poorer for having no enormous roadside flocks of shimmery black beauties swarming in the evening. (See this previous post for an example of the enormous proportions this phenomenon reaches in Europe.) And they can talk.

Tags: Birds, Saturday Birds