User:BrianY
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Welcome!
I live in Bishop, California in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range.
Facts:
- Birth location: Ireland
- Age: 18
- Favorite Food: Carrot or Lettuce
- Favorite Sport: Baseball
- Favorite Team: Dodgers
- Interests: Politics, Baseball
- Favorite Trip: Lake Tahoe (yearly)
- Edit Count
- SSP Up to Date: At Daily Digest January 18
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| V | This user is a vegetarian. |
 | This user eats apples. |
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 | This user loves eating carrots. |
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 | This user eats potatoes. |
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This user eats candy corn. |
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 | This user is interested in law. |
 | This user enjoys filmmaking. |
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 | This user wants to stop global warming. |
Today's motto...
→ Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli
("According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their destiny")
The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is a medium-sized perching bird in the starling family, Sturnidae. It is about 20 centimetres (8 inches) long and has glossy black plumage, which is speckled with white at some times of year. The legs are pink and the bill is black in winter and yellow in summer; young birds have browner plumage than the adults. It is a noisy bird, especially in communal roosts, with an unmusical but varied song. The starling has about a dozen subspecies breeding in open habitats across its native range in temperate Europe and western Asia, and it has been introduced elsewhere. This bird is resident in southern and western Europe and southwestern Asia, while northeastern populations migrate south and west in winter. The starling builds an untidy nest in a natural or artificial cavity in which four or five glossy, pale blue eggs are laid. These take two weeks to hatch and the young remain in the nest for another three weeks. The species is omnivorous, taking a wide range of invertebrates, as well as seeds and fruit. The starling's gift for mimicry has been noted in literature including the medieval Welsh Mabinogion and the works of Pliny the Elder and William Shakespeare. This common starling was photographed at Bodega Head on the northern coast of the U.S. state of California.Photograph credit: Frank Schulenburg