26 September 2018
An "unusually tame"
starling has been on a city pub crawl in Devon.
The bird, which behaves as if it
is hand reared, first turned up at the Passage House Inn, Topsham, on Monday.
Its behaviour - flying into
people's hands and hopping onto their arms for selfies - is the exact opposite
of what is normal for its species.
The RSPB said that the bird had
"lost its natural fear of humans" as it appears to have been
regularly fed.
The bird visited two other pubs
within the Topsham area where it posed for selfies on people's heads.
Pub customer and wildlife
specialist Jayne Farleigh, from Kingsteignton, took the bird home after fearing
it may fall victim to a cat or other predator.
She has now posted on Facebook to
find the owner of the starling, which she believes is a pet.
She said: "I was quite
concerned about him.
"I'm thinking he must belong
to somebody, somebody has hand reared him and I'm not sure if they've tried to
release him with the intentions of him going back into the wild or whether
they've lost him.
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