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Starly ムックル Mukkuru #396
115.px Artwork from Diamond/Pearl
Type Normal Flying Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Starling Pokémon
Ability Keen Eye Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,059,860
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto #— Hoenn Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "—". Sinnoh #010 Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 1′00″ Imperial 0.3 m Metric 1′00″/0.3 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 4.4 lbs. Imperial 2.0 kg Metric 4.4 lbs./2.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Brown	Catch rate 255 (33.3%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Flying group 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 56 Battle Exp.: 561*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Starly (Japanese: ムックル Mukkuru) is a Normal/Flying-type Pokémon.

Biology

Physiology

Gender differences

The white spot on a female's forehead will be smaller.

Special abilities

The muscles in Starly's wings are very strong, but are able to bend at the same time to give Starly flexibility when flapping its wings. This also gives it great power with its wings, so it is able to take off extremely quickly from the ground by angling its head up vertically and giving a big up-beat from its wings. This is its escape mechanism from predators.

Another charactaristic of Starly is that its eyes are always focused on something. They have binocular eyesight, and can pick out great detail from 20 meters away. This gives Starly the ability Keen Eye where its vision can't be marred whatsoever by any force.

Behavior

Starly are very complacent Pokémon, like most Template:Type2s, for example Pidgey. Cool and calm at nearly all times, they are also very sociable creatures and have a number of different calls and cries. Starly congregate here and there in flocks, sometimes in very large numbers, but some Starly spend half their time alone, or in a small group cut off from the main flock.

Due to their keen eyesight and their powerful muscles and light bones, Starly are perfectly adapted to taking flight whenever needed, especially when spotted by a predator like Poochyena, Growlithe or Glameow. This is where living in numbers benefits the whole group - 30 pairs of eyes are better than one, and one Starly can disappear into a huge flock, making it extremely difficult for predators to lock onto one target when the whole flock takes off.

Starly are very sociable with their own species. However, they can also communicate with other species, mainly Pidgey and Taillow, but rarely Spearow. Starly's calls are known to be very strident, and over 50 different chirps and songs have been recorded.

Starly keep a small area, or space, rarely bigger that 5 meters by 5 meters or so, which they seem to defend ferociously to any who seem fit to intrude. They tolerate other species, and some territories may overlap, but fights break out when territories begin to run over each other, or when the breeding season begins and males are trying to impress the females. Starly can use its long beak to prod at others and groom themselves, but its main purpose is for a specialized diet (see below).

Habitat

Starly are very common in large, green, well-tended gardens in the suburbs of modern towns. Large flocks congregate in adjoining backyards to make one "super-flock" which may take off elsewhere. Larger Starly are found in deciduous woodland and fields, where they are more likely to evolve to Staravia, which is more adapted to life in the open grasslands.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

Starly's diet consists mainly of worms and grubs. Its long beak can prod through the earth, where Starly's excellent sense of smell will sniff out any worms hiding at least 6 inches below the surface. Starly can use the beak as a chip against bark, getting to the juicy grubs inside, but this may leave scars on the beak as it is not quite adapted to this technique. Starly also feed on nuts and seeds, even from humans in man-made bird nests/houses.

In the anime

Starly made its first animated appearance in Following a Maiden's Voyage, with one being examined at Professor Rowan's lab.

Continuing his Flying Pokémon tradition, Ash captured a Starly in Two Degrees of Separation. He used it to find Pikachu and it was then used to pop Team Rocket's balloon until evolving in A Staravia is Born.

Paul captured three Starly in When Pokémon Worlds Collide. The first two were released because they didn't know Aerial Ace; although the third could use the move and easily beat Ash's Starly, Paul still deemed it weak and released it as well.

Brock healed a wild Starly in DP038.

In the manga

Berlitz was attacked by a swarm of Starly just leaving Professor Rowan's. She was protected by Diamond and Pearl.

In the TCG

Two Starly cards have been released.

• Diamond & Pearl: Starly
• POP Series 6: Starly

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Template:DP type effectiveness

Learnset

Template:Learnset intro

By leveling up

By TM/HM

By breeding

• Astonish
• Double-Edge
• Featherdance
• Foresight
• Fury Attack
• Pursuit
• Sand-Attack

By tutoring

None

Evolution

Trivia

Origin

Starly is based off a young starling.

Name origin

Mukkuru is derived from 椋鳥 mukudori (gray starling) and and kurukuru (クルクル), an onomatopoeic word describing a bird's call. Starly is derived from starling. Its German name, Staralili, comes from Star. Its French name, Etourmi, comes from étourneau.

In other languages

• German: Staralili
• French: Etourmi
• Korean:

Related articles

• Ash's Starly

External links

• Article on Wikipedia

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