Young starling helps feeding its baby siblings

This 15 June 2015 video from the Netherlands shows a nestbox with four baby starlings in the nest.

Not only the parents feed the baby birds. A young starling, born in this nest in 2014, helps with the feeding.

We know this because the elder sibling of the babies had been provided with a coloured ring.

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