My daughters talked about it for a few years and showed me some videos of people that had they get them to talk. . They were pretty cool. They are invasive so no wildlife laws to worry about so figure whay not.

The largest challenge was geting my boys to not shoot then when building and nesting. Due to time limits she is leaving the young longer than she would like since she cant feed them as often as they would need on work days.

Has anyone ever messed with them before.

Only good starling is a DEAD starling.....

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They are smart for sure. If I walk outside unhealed they just watch me walk under them. The second I step out the door with a gun in my hand they take off in a panic.

No, never heard of taming them,... but interesting fact,.... had a cat that waited under the deck for an English sparrow to fall, and would eat the whole thing, but she'd sniff the starlings and walk away in disgust, lol

We had hundreds of thousands of starlings when the duck farms were active, the large flight formations were fascinating to watch...

They were imported as caged birds.

Super smart birds. If they weren’t so destructive they would be easy to like.

They taste good too!

They can be a challenge to feed and raise as I found out. Don't feed them live worms. Their feeding routine can be tricky. Dont feed them too much or too often.

Sorry I can't help any further.

What about meal worms?

I started to learn basic taxidermy skills using starlings, and pigeons,, they were readily available.
I never could get the mounting wires down the legs correctly,,, I kept ripping the leg skin.
I still suck at taxidermy,,, but I’m not as horrible as I used to be.

I have them trained to play dead
I can sell you an instruction manual if you need it
You pay shipping of course

That's gross

My idea for a great, terrifying prank, for many years, is to catch 60,000 young starlings, put them in huge pen and play loops of scary savings continuously. Things like "The end of the world is near.", " Hail Satan.", "Run!" and "Die!". It would cause a " War of the Worlds" type panic.

I talked a friend of mine into taking a baby starling from my barn and making a pet of it. It made a good pet. It would ride his shoulder, mimic him and fly down and eat worms, slugs and insects that were under rocks and boards he flipped. It got lost when he left it outside during a wind storm.

Keith

I got them trained to flush wildly with a red light…….so I went thermal!

She waited until they are about ready to fly instead of taking them younger so it would hopefully easier and less demanding to feed them. We will see how the experiment goes.

And yes that would be quite funny people would loose it.

What? They taste like dove. LOL

A guy from my neighborhood who mentored me when I was a kid would tell me how when he was a kid and growing up in the Great Depression his mother would spread breadcrumbs or whatever cheap bait was available and wait till the starlings were concentrated so as to kill as many as possible with one shotgun shell.

They weren’t killing them because they were pest, they were killing for table fare.

In one of the little house books Paw shot some that were eating the seed he planted and maw cooked them My daughter was young when we read the books and decided she wanted to try them so shot one and my wife cooked it for her. She said they were good.

My granddaughter enjoys eating unusual foods with me. She even had me cook up some red fox last season. Neither one of us liked it though.

It was her idea to shoot a bunch of starlings, remove the breasts and fry them up. They were very tasty simply fried on hot cast-iron in butter. And they actually do taste like dove which I find delicious.