Purple martins are gorgeous backyard birds, known for their iridescent feathers and mid-sky acrobatics. As North America’s ...

I crept around the back corner of my grandfather’s house, BB gun in hand. The bing cherry tree outside the front porch was ...

A particular bird that’s mostly black and often is considered to be a member of the blackbird family is the European Starling — but it is not! It’s in a family of its own and this bird comes ...

For years, this has been the story told regarding the European starling's invasion of North America As history tells it, the European starling was introduced to North America by Eugene Schiefflin ...

The European starling is nowhere to be found in Matt Kracht’s “A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the Worst Birds Ever,” a compendium that includes chapters on “creeps and weirdos” and ...

European Starling (also called common starling) are originally from Europe and East Asia. In the early 1890s a flock of 100 birds was intentionally introduced in New York City’s Central Park.

And the European Starling is a common sight in Brooklyn. So far this year there have been 5,318 European Starling sightings in Brooklyn Bridge Park and 27,470 in Prospect Park.

This Dec. 3, 2024, murmuration in Hagerstown was most likely European starlings evading a predator, likely a hawk, according to a Potomac Audubon rep.

Unlike all other starlings (there are 130 members of the starling family), the jaw muscles of the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) work backward.

There are two ways to deter European Starlings: use safflower seed, which has a hard shell that the starlings cannot crack, or use a caged feeder that does not allow the larger European Starlings in.

Bradley F. Blackwell, Bruce N. Buckingham, Morgan B. Pfeiffer, European starling use of nest boxes relative to human disturbance, Human-Wildlife Interactions, Vol. 16 ...

Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird By Mike Stark Bison Books 272 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.