How to Attract Starlings to Your Backyard

How to Attract Starlings to Your Backyard
Written By
Kate Bruscke
Kate Bruscke
Published: Apr 18, 2011
Updated: Nov 20, 2021
1 minute read

Things You Will Need

  • Tube feeder
  • Cracked corn
  • Peanuts
  • Hanging bird bath
  • Large birdhouse

Starlings are attractive small birds, with iridescent black-green plumage and bright yellow bill. Although some farmers find the birds to be a nuisance due to crop picking and scavenging at feedlots, backyard birdwatchers attract starlings to their yards with bird feeders and welcoming roosting space.

  1. Fill a tubular bird feeder with the cracked corn and peanuts.

  2. Hang the feeder from the limb of a tree or on the frame of your porch.

  3. Suspend a bird bath filled with fresh water near the feeder.

  4. Hang a birdhouse someplace where it is protected from predators and wind. Starlings like to roost, particularly during the winter months or when raising their young.

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Kate Bruscke

A writer and professional lab assistant based in Seattle, Kate Bruscke has been writing professionally about health care and technology since 1998. Her freelance clients include "The Seattle Times," KGB.com, Reading Local: Seattle,…

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