The European Starling

The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals: Eighth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 697-705

  Bateson, Melissa ^a   Asher, Lucy ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abnormal behaviour pattern by caged starlings, somersaulting or flipping stereotypy; Bill and claw trimming; Cages equipped with adequate perches for all birds, to reduce competition; Captive starlings in wide variety of enclosures of different sizes and shapes; Captive starlings, rarely with disease problems if husbandry is good; European starling (Sturnus vulgaris L.), medium sized song bird family Sturnidae, sub order Oscines; Sexually dimorphic features in starlings; Starlings used in laboratory research caught from the wild; Starlings, cavity nesters usually colonial breeders with nests; Starlings, readily available and robust species settling fast in captivity and in good health

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954566153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318777.ch45     Document Type: Chapter

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