If you think you hear a familiar spring bird, like a Bluebird, Killdeer, Tree Swallow or Robin singing in February or March, you better make sure it isn’t a Starling! With daylight getting ...

"It is essential that surveys like this continue to gather important scientific information if we are to reverse the decline of our best loved garden birds such as the starling and house sparrow." ...

The murmurations work like signals to the returning birds — a way for starlings, which are highly sociable, to gather together. Ornithologist Alessandro Montemaggiori keeps a starling specimen ...

sprinkled in winter with gleaming white flecks that look like stars in the night sky. There are starlings that live in the UK all year round. In autumn, starlings from mainland Europe migrate across ...