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🐦 Sturnus vulgaris Winter Behavior Documentation

🎥 Filmed by: Dr. Syed Aftab Hussain Shah – BiodiversiGrapher®
📍 Location: Jagal, Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
📅 Date Range: 26 December 2022 – 20 January 2025
🎼 Music Credit: Original music and ambient sound by Dr Shah, SAH | BiodiversiGrapher®

This is a multi-year composite documenting the winter roosting and flock behavior of the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) across 13 confirmed observation dates between 26 December 2022 and 20 January 2025, filmed in Jagal, Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

The video showcases:
• Dawn and dusk roosting on Populus deltoides (Sufaida)
• Low- and high-frequency vocalizations
• Preening and comfort behaviors on Melia azedarach (Dhrek) and Morus alba (Toot)
• Spontaneous flock flight and regrouping sequences
• Mixed-species interactions (House Crows, Mynas, domestic rooster)
🎧 All ambient sounds are real and unedited.
🎥 No narration or disturbance; behavior captured as observed.

⏱️ Timeline / Chapters:

00:00:00 – 00:00:08
🌄 Morning landscape with distant starling calls
00:00:08 – 00:00:19
🌳 Flock roosting on Populus deltoides (Sufaida) trees
00:00:20 – 00:01:06
🔊 Loud chorus of calls across the winter canopy
00:01:07 – 00:01:21
🌿 Low calls on Melia azedarach (Dhrek); crows nearby
00:01:23 – 00:01:51
🪶 Preening birds with Myna and rooster in backdrop
00:01:52 – 00:02:03
🔍 Close-up: grooming behavior on Dhrek tree
00:02:04 – 00:02:34
☀️ Solitary bird basking and shifting posture
00:02:35 – 00:04:20
✈️ Flight display: flock reorganization and departure
00:04:22 – 00:04:39
🪶 Chest preening: close-up feather maintenance
00:04:40 – 00:05:14
🌞 Calm bird on Morus alba (Toot); soft contact calls

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📚 References (European Starling – Sturnus vulgaris):

• Eens, M., Pinxten, R., & Verheyen, R. F. (1992). Song learning in captive European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. Animal Behaviour, 44(6), 1131–1143. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-3472(05...
• Buchanan, K. L., Spencer, K. A., Goldsmith, A. R., & Catchpole, C. K. (2003). Song as an honest signal of past developmental stress in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 270(1520), 1149–1156. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2002.2307
• Asher, L., & Bateson, M. (2008). Use and husbandry of captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) in scientific research: a review of current practice. Laboratory Animals, 42(2), 111–126. https://doi.org/10.1258/la.2007.007058
• Dial, K. P., Goslow Jr, G. E., & Jenkins Jr, F. A. (1991). The functional anatomy of the shoulder in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris). Journal of Morphology, 207(3), 327–344. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.1052070307