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Gulls compete with crows as opportunists and scavengers. They make every dumpster in America a "study in black and white".

But if you go to Salt Lake City you will see a big statue of a flock of gulls.

When the Mormons fled to Utah back in the 1800's , and tried to survive in the Utah desert they had a "plague of locusts" that almost wiped out their crops and would have wiped the Mormons out by starvation. But then....a flock of gulls appeared over the horizon just in time...and the gulls swooped down and ate all of the locusts, saving the Mormon settlers. The Mormons deemed the gull attack to be a miracle sent by God. And the event is still honored in Mormon Utah legend.

You mention starlings. What a fascinating bird. They copy sounds.
Where we used to live, the row of houses opposite were one by one having new roofs fitted. They no longer wanted old fasion slate and wanted to modernize them and fit concrete style tyles. Our house was old and had been modernized about 80 to 200 years before and the old thatch had been removed and lovely light blue Pembrokeshire tiles. The houses opposite had the duller purple North Wales slates which could have lasted many years more but they wanted modern so were changing.
Now naturally the roofing people were hammering on the rooves. Taking the old slates and chucking them in skips (There was not the market for keeping the slates intact in those days.. 20+ years later slates have become expensive)... Then hammering on the new tiles. Some of the roofs sagged under the weight as the slates were lighter then the new tiles but they were not to know, and the roofers didn't know because they had no long changed to the tiles, and were all out busy when the fasion to change had caught.... Knock knock knock... We lives on a bank higher then the houses opposite so we were looking down on them in a way. The sound of knocking was amplified due to the way the accoustics hit us. The traffic on the road used to rattle our windows! So the sound of knocking went on and on. Uhmm. On and on. The weeks turned into months. Surely the roofers had long finnished changing the rooves? They had. Months later the starlings were repeating the sound with such accuracy!
We had fun when cars started to be fitted with alarma. These birds would copy and whole towns had alarms going off!
The funny one... We would hear a siren of an anbulance, police car, fire engine or the coastguard and we would look at the road to see what was passing.... Nothing. It was those birds again!

I like birds on a plate in front of me like baked chicken, fried chicken, rotisserie chicken, chicken sandwiches, buffalo wings, fried turkey, turkey sandwiches ect.

Someone beat you to the punchline, and said that already.
You forgot to mention turkey. Some folks even like pheasant.

But yeah...there ARE birds that are good to eat. No non vegetarian can deny that.

Like their eggs too.