Just three people, about to witness one of Britain’s great natural spectacles while the rest of the country was still in ...

Starling murmurations are breathtaking aerial displays of thousands of birds moving in harmony. This collective behavior, arising from simple rules like maintaining distance and matching speed ...

Cars (and sometimes people) are being covered in poo as thousands of starlings dance in the sky at this time of year. Between October and March, the birds swirl together forming murmurations ...

Starlings, a problem for which we can only blame ourselves, seem to do nothing in moderation. One appealing feature of starlings is that they are superb mimics of bird songs as well as other ...

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 ...

The starling has emerged as the UK's garden bird champion, taking top spot in the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch, it was announced today. But the survey found that the number of starlings has ...

starlings. Further, Dr Audet and collaborators also ranked these three species highest in vocal learning capability. Dr Audet and collaborators then tested problem-solving abilities of 214 birds ...

A quiet residential street found itself at the centre of a frenzy of excitement for several hours as word spread that a rare bird had been spotted in the area. The Rose-coloured Starling ...

The problem is especially worrisome ... Examples of transmissible bird diseases associated with pigeons, geese, starling and house sparrows: Besides being direct carriers of disease, nuisance ...

There are starlings that live in the UK all year round. In autumn, starlings from mainland Europe migrate across the channel to spend the winter in the UK. Together, they form massive flocks made up ...

If birds left tracks in the sky ... were drained around 1950 for agricultural use and restored in 2005. “In winter the starlings gather in large groups,” says Bou, who took this photo in ...