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, ...

Drowning has emerged as a mysterious cause of death among groups of young common starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), according to research by a team of scientists. Drowning has emerged as a mysterious cause ...

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 ...

Common starlings are native to Britain, northern and central Europe, but replaced in Spain and Portugal by their relative the spotless starling, and in west and east Asia by the rose-coloured starling ...

The Javan pied starling (Gracupica jalla) was once common across the Indonesian island of Java, but has now disappeared from the wild, thanks in large part to the songbird trade. A new study that ...

Noisy. Drab. Pest. These are common reactions when I mention the starling. That is totally understandable. They are indeed loud, nonnative, and commonplace. But they have one amazing super power.

Why are there more than 200 million European starlings in North America? And what can genetic diversity tell us about this avian invasion? Adult common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in fresh plumage.

image: Drowning has emerged as a mysterious cause of death among groups of young common starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), according to research by a team of scientists led by international conservation ...