Wild Bird Eggs: Incubate?

[RioLindoAz]

I thought that the starling was a song bird.

 

[ticks]

It may be, but I said NATIVE songbirds. Starlings are just an invasive species that are a pest.

 

[dacjohns]

Starlings are not good. They are non native. They are not protected. They form large flocks that cause millions of dollars of damage to crops. They roost in large flocks and some of the roosting areas are known to harbor histoplasmois, a bad disease that gets into peoples lungs. They are not good to have around.

 

[Davaroo]

Id move the nest somewhere nearby and hope for the best. YMMV.

 

[countyroad1330]

I read that it is actually illegal to be in posession of a very small number of breeds, because they are not native and are running out our native birds.

After sleeping on it a couple ours, I decided to let them be. I saved the nest best I could and put it in a safe place close to the area, and the mother was around watching. I decided it would be better to hope she came back, then to get them hatched and then not be able to keep them alive.

Thanks everyone for your advice.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

We saved a Starling who was trapped in the floo of our fireplace, They don't seem to do so much damage in Canada... Atleast none that I have noticed, if you ask me it's the bloody seagulls and those flipping raven things that do damage. They knock my birdfeeders about, that I have up for the bluejays and cardinals, and tip at least a litre (yes, I know it's a liquid measurement!) of birdseed onto the ground every bloody day!

 

[countyroad1330]

Ha! Chick-a-dee, that just goes to show how things vary by location. Here in my part of Oklahoma we don't have seagulls. I think I've seen two in my lifetime.

Grackles seem to be our biggest issue. They fly in and run off all the birds, and they tear up the feeders, and poop all over everything, and flock like an Alfred Hitchcock movie!!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

We get HUGE flocks around here of Starling. I never knew what the flocks were(never really looked it up) until I read this post. When I think big flocks I'm talking 100 maximum. The Starlings around here flock in the thousands. We had a flock near the horse barn I boarded at for a while. There were so many of them that there was a constant buzzing in the background from their wings beating. It was crazy! Something out of that old horror movie about birds.

If you have ever seen a swarm of locusts, in person or on tv, just imagine a bunch of blackbirds instead of bugs and you have a picture of the flocks we get here.

They descended on our property a few times and stole all the dog's food out of their bowls. We had a few of them drowned in our pool and there were so many that our dogs actually snatched a few out of the air.

I always wondered a little bit about what kind of birds they were. I always just called them blackbirds, like I call any songbird that is black(except the more obvious like the Crows and Ravens).

-Kim

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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They're not blackbirds, we have like Raven's.. and Red-wing blackbirds, which are actually rather nice. I think Starlings have a blue tint to their wings, or a coloured tint. What REALLY annoys me is bloody Cardinals -_- for the past 7 years one beautiful, but stupid male Cardinal has been flying into my bedroom window EVERY year for about 5 hours a night. THE same one comes back EVERY YEAR.

It's the seagulls we have a massive issue with here I think, they're disgusting, annoying, massive, and they are agressive too.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Oh, I knew they weren't all blackbirds. I just generalized them all into one group, songbirds that were black. I just never made the effort to look up what they were. We have the Red-shouldered blackbird here and I think they are pretty cool.

Never heard of someone who didn't like Cardinals. LOL That's funny about your peeping tom of a Cardinal. How are you sure it is the same on? I mean more than likely it is the same one, I'm just curious to know whether you are absolutely sure of not. Some distinguishing feature or something. Your Cardinal must have had brain-damage from the first time he hit your window on accident. LOL. Maybe he just sees his reflection and assumes it is a challenging/tresspassing male too close to the nest? Or maybe it's just plain dim-witted. LOL

-Kim