Celebrated bird expert Heather Wolf will present a special program and slideshow, including information on unusual birds like the Starling and the Killdeer, on Wednesday, Aug. 30, at the Estuary ...

European Starling (also called common starling) are originally from Europe and East Asia. In the early 1890s a flock of 100 birds was intentionally introduced in New York City’s Central Park.

Starling numbers are in decline. 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 ...

I was hosing bird droppings—a staggeringly copious amount of them—off my front stoop when I saw one author of the mess parked on a powerline above my house. In rapid succession, pitch-perfect ...

But for birds consuming the estrogen cocktail, the vocal center grew even larger—and they sang five times as long as uncontaminated birds and composed more complex songs. In the lab, female starlings ...

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.

A particular bird that’s mostly black and often is considered to be a member of the blackbird family is the European Starling — but it is not!

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 ...