Скачать или смотреть Rosy Starling, Calling 2019. (Pastor roseus)rose-coloured starling or rose-coloured pastor

It is winter and the visitors already arrived. One can know the noisy call of the bird without seeing it is the Rosy Starling birds. Though I've seen and heard them last winter, I record this year again their presence here in Bangalore, India.

The song is a typical starling mixture of squeaks and rattles, given with much wing trembling. In Xinjiang, China, farmers used to use insecticide to eliminate locust, which is costly and polluting. In the 1980s, experts found that rosy starlings which fly to Xinjiang farms and feed on locusts could be used for control instead. The experts begin to build artificial nests to attract rosy starlings, an effort reported to be so successful that the number of locusts was insufficient to feed the birds, causing many juveniles die for hunger. By the 2000s many Xinjiang farms greatly decreased the usage of insecticide.

Please see my previous video on Rosy Starling 👇
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