Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird By Mike Stark Bison Books 272 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

This upside-down suet feeder requires birds to feed from underneath, a posture not easily attained by most European Starlings and Common Grackles. The woodpeckers, however, have no problem ...

Today, and a testament to its survival skills, the European Starling is one of North America’s most common songbirds, with an estimated population of 200 million ranging between Canada and Mexico.

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! It’s in a family of its own and this bird comes ...

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.

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 ...

Grackles are large blackbirds that have a reputation as bullies at feeders. There are three types of grackle birds to look for across America.

Many familiar birds of the urban environments represent species that were introduced from outside of North America. In Iowa, these include rock pigeon, European starling and house sparrow, which ...

How does a starling murmuration work? Starlings form the incredible patterns seen in a murmuration by following simple rules of movement in relation to each other. When in flight, each starling ...

A bird photographer in Michigan has captured dramatic footage of the moment a red-headed woodpecker found a starling in its tree trunk nest and evicted it by yanking it out.

Then there is one species of bird—the starling—in which environmental estrogens have an especially surprising effect: Exposed male starlings turn into better singers, duping female starlings into ...