# Sturnus vulgaris -California-8

- By: Ingrid Taylar
- Date: 2009-08-06
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: originally posted to Flickr as Growing Up
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sturnus_vulgaris_-California-8.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/9/9e/Sturnus_vulgaris_-California-8.jpg/1920px-Sturnus_vulgaris_-California-8.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A juvenile European Starling (also known as Common Starling or just Starling, Sturnus vulgaris). It is part of a large flock of mixed blackbirds/Starlings at Crissy Field in San Francisco, California, USA. Its feathers are in transition to first-winter plumage.