Hello Starling is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Josh Ritter.

It was Ritter's second album release nationally on the label Signature Sounds.

It was originally released on September 9, 2003, a two-disc deluxe edition was re-issued on January 17, 2010 As Ritter's previous albums have done, Hello Starling was compared to other Americana greats such as Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt,[4] Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen.

The Deluxe Edition includes the complete original studio album and a second bonus disc.

The bonus disc contains solo acoustic versions of all the original tracks (re-recorded by Ritter in Nashville of June 2008) as well as four live bonus tracks, an introduction by Dennis Lehane, and a full color lyric and photo booklet with never-before-seen photos.