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What are these backyard birds?
Please identify the attached pictures as I am uncertain of their names.
Thanks,
Lewis Rubin
Lewis Rubin, Santa Barbara - September 19, 2020
Curator Response
Hi Lewis,
These look like juvenile European Starlings molting into adult plumage.
Keep birding,
Curators of Vertebrate Zoology Krista Fahy, Ph.D., and Paul W. Collins, M.A.
Lewis Rubin response:
Thank you for your response.
