Starlings are incredible mimics, though occasionally the mix two birds up.

I've heard Starlings mimic...

   Killdeer
   Red-tailed hawk
   Phoebe
   Least Flycatcher
   Red-bellied Woodpecker
   Eastern Wood-peewee


It makes birding by ear a little tricky.

Rick Hoyme

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Subject: [mou-net] Creative Mimicry

Heard this morning in downtown Princeton, MN (booming metropolis of 4,000):

Peeeeeeeeerrrrpheebe

Presumably a creative starling.

Or a late hybrid I want to meet:)

Al Schirmacher
Princeton, MN
Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties

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