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." ...

By his own admission, James Crombie knew “very, very little” about starlings ... often saw the birds form patterns and abstract shapes, their varying densities appearing like the subtle ...

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 ...

A video showing a stunning murmuration of starlings has captivated ... the way home to film this." The birds are shown moving in unison, forming dynamic, cloud-like shapes. In the background ...

Juvenile and immature starlings are initially plain grey-brown with a pale throat, moulting to adult-like pale-spotted ... There are two main types of bird call: the contact call and the alarm ...

A new strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected in milk samples collected from dairy cows in Nevada.