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, ...

Black birds. Good or bad? Depending on which black bird species, your answer could be yes or no … or something in between. First of all, we have to get the nomenclature straightened out so we can make ...

Winter starlings are black with white spots, but spring starlings can be brilliantly iridescent. Photo by Jeff Tome You can find birds living just about anywhere if you stop to look around for a bit, ...

A YouTuber, Benn Jordan, has successfully managed to save a PNG file to a starling songbird. To do so, Jordan took a sketch of a bird, converted it into an audio wave, and taught the sterling to ...

A beautiful viral video depicted the harmonious flight of hundreds of birds, leaving viewers claiming there to be no explanation behind it. One bird expert told Newsweek that it's only half true. The ...

Photographs authentically show a group of starlings flying together in the shape of a giant bird. Rating: True (About this ...

Watching starling murmurations as the birds swoop, dive, and wheel through the sky is one of the great pleasures of a dusky winter’s evening. From Naples to Newcastle, these flocks of agile birds are ...

For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue to surprise them. A convergence of starlings swirls above St. Peter’s ...

Researchers debunked a long-repeated yarn that the common birds owe their North American beginnings to a 19th-century lover of the Bard. Maybe this ubiquitous bird’s story is ready for a reboot. By ...

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 ...

If you find your bird feeders being ravaged by a scourge of starlings this winter (like ours have been) and you’re looking for someone to blame, look no further than that most famous of all ...