A rather hardy, proliferate bird, the European Starling eats small invertebrates, seeds and berries and lives in trees or builds cavities in cities or agri-lands. Native to Eurasia, immigrants released them in America around the 1890s; it now resides across the North American continent from Alaska through Northern Mexico. This short-tailed, chubby, shiny black bird's long pointed bill is yellow in summer, dark in fall and white flecked in winter. Juveniles are non-descriptively dull.