A captive diet for Ruppell's Long-tailed Starlings is:
Choice of fruits: 14 grams halves of fig, dates, grapes or plums, slices of apple, orange, pears, bananas; or 1/3 can fruit cocktail or diced fruit, also blackberries, eugenia, elderberries, hawthorn and pyracantha and raisins which have been soaked overnight in water.
Minced meat: 5 grams
Choice of seeds: 5 grams
Inscects: 5 grams grasshoppers, crickets, mealworms or beetle pupae
Boiled rice: 5 grams

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