Cheeping, and the bright color of their mouths encourages the parents to feed them. They grow fast because of a protein rich diet of insects. The birds have their first adult feathers within a year. Bali starlings are only found in a small area on the island of Bali in Indonesia. Their habitat is the tall grasslands near the coast.
Starlings usually live in flocks.
They become aggressive to other birds who enter their territory - even other starlings. In 1984, there were only 150 birds left in the wild. Today there are only 14 left in the wild on a single reserve. More than half of their habitat was converted into farmland, coconut plantation, and forest plantation. Many of them were captured and sold as pets.