Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of ...

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The "top ten" most common garden birds in this year's Big Garden Birdwatch were starling, house sparrow, blue tit, blackbird, chaffinch, greenfinch, collard dove, great tit, robin and wood pigeon.

On winter evenings throughout much of Europe and North America, an hour before sunset, thousands of starlings gather in the skies. Before descending to their nighttime roosts, the birds put on ...

You've probably heard of invasive plants, but what about invasive birds? These common nonnative species are now abundant in America.

Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling is arguably and problematically the most successful bird on the continent. Often characterized as bold ...

One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find multiple starling species within the same murmuration. During murmuration ...

The common European starling was recently placed on the red list as a bird of high conservation concern. In the UK, staring numbers have dropped by 67% since the early 1970s. The decline in starlings ...