The reason for this is starlings mimic other things. If you live in a big city a starling might honk at you. Sometimes if you whistle you may get a starling to whistle back to you. The reason starlings are so common is probably that they keep their young ones in the nest until they are ready to fly. When a starling incubates its eggs it first lays all of them because otherwise one will be bigger than the others.
Starlings have powerful beak muscles for opening their beaks.
The reason for that is that they need it for flipping over small rocks to find bugs. Top of this page Caring for a starling Starlings make good pets. They are social, so they enjoy human companionship, and they are easy to take care of. They like noise and activity. A starling's idea of fun is being surrounded by a den of excited cub scouts.