Attached is a picture of my pet starling, Little Bird. I raised him from a tiny baby two years ago. Starlings are one of the best talkers in the bird world, and pick up words and sounds on their own, without having to be taught through repetition. Little Bird says hundreds of words and phrases now. They are funny, social, smart, friendly birds.
Starlings are very easy to raise, actually. They eat very well for you, and eat commonly available foods. If you want to try to raise this baby, PM me and I'll give you details. However ... be warned before you take the baby out of the nest ... if you raise it and feed it, it will imprint on you. In other words, it will think it is a human and that you are its mommy. It will have no clue that it is a bird, will have no fear of humans and no clue how to hunt food and survive. If you raise a baby starling, you MUST keep it as a pet forever. It's a BIG responsibility, and starlings are carnivores. They eat meat, such as insects, they do not eat bird seed at all.
If the parents are gone, or aren't caring for this baby, you could try to raise it, IF you can keep it as a pet. If you can't keep it, just let nature take its course. And, of course, if the parents are trying to raise it, please let them alone. You could help by setting out some food, such as chopped boiled egg and dog or cat food soaked in water until it is soft.
By the way, saying you can't touch a baby bird because the parents will smell your scent and not care for the baby anymore is a complete myth. It is NOT true. Birds have a very, very, very weak sense of smell. So if you find a baby bird on the ground and can see the nest it fell out of, it is perfectly ok to pick up the baby bird and put it back in the nest. The parents will never even know you did it. And even if they see you do it, they won't care. Their instinct to feed is stronger than their fear of humans. I have seen mother birds feed babies that were being raised by humans in cages ... the parents just shove the food through the cage bars for the babies!
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"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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