Ecology
The starlings were called "Red-eyes" from their eye colour, or "Cudgimeruk" from their distinctive calls, by the islanders. They were forest dwellers which lived and foraged in pairs. During the nesting period a clutch of four to five bluish red-blotched eggs were laid in a nest in a hollow in a dead tree or tree fern.
Read more about this topic: Lord Howe Starling
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