Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
I would definitely buy them local. Here they hibernate in shrubs.
I do not know much about Starlings, at the other house I had a two gallon bird bath and there would be 15 in there at one time. It was so funny!!
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29