1) Starling populations in west-central Illinois dropped to one of its lowest levels of the year in July 1965 (100 birds per 100 miles of census route) as a result of either young Starlings migrating ...

Guess which bird is one of the most beneficial for your lawn, garden and trees. Would you believe it just might be the much-despised, alien European starling? Yes, the starling, that noisy, aggressive ...

The communal aerobatic displays that huge flocks of starlings perform above their roosts of an evening are legendary. They are also devilish in their complexity. In the last few years, complexity ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Thick chattering flocks of European starlings are a common sight in South Florida this time of year, products of a Shakespeare fan’s long-ago folly but a hint that ...

Like the collective motions of bird flocks, the patterns result from the concerted interactions of many individual particles without a central coordinator. Credit: Wikipedia. Like the collective ...

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, ...

Of all the non-native plant and animal species currently in the United States, few have a stranger tale of introduction than the starling. The bird, whose full name is the European starling, is a ...

Flocks of acrobatic starlings have long delighted observers, from Shakespeare to the present day. The birds—sometimes by the thousands—often seem to move as one, coursing through the air at breakneck ...

Wild and caged Starlings were studied to describe the behavior patterns of agonistic significance. Wild birds were watched in all seasons, while study of the caged birds was confined mainly to birds ...