Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. European starlings are one of my favorite "winter's coming" birds. We have a couple that nest during the summer in a cavity high ...

Throughout the northern hemisphere, the dark cold months between November and February are the time when European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, come together every evening into large flocks known as ...

As starling numbers fall to record lows in the UK, gardeners have been urged to feed them four specific food scraps to help them thrive. According to the 2025 RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, fewer ...

Hundreds of starlings are sitting side by side by side — up on a power line yakking, preening — when all of a sudden, boom! Up they go, all of them. What happened? A sudden noise? A falcon in the ...

It's not going to happen while you're peering through your binoculars, but African glossy starlings change color more than 10 times faster than their ancestors and even their modern relatives, ...

Numbers about birds get tossed around a lot, in headlines, nature documentaries, and casual conversation at the backyard ...

Love them or hate them, there's no doubt the European Starling is a wildly successful bird. A new study from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology examines this non-native species from the inside out. What ...

DEAR JOAN: It is all well and good for the people who live in America that are looking for help in sorting out their bully birds, but what about us people in Scotland and England who have problems ...

European starlings are one of my favorite "winter’s coming" birds. We have a couple that nest during the summer in a cavity high up in a dead poplar, but rarely see them. This time of year, however, ...