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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Three of the most notable of these non-native birds in Marin are European starlings, house sparrows and Eurasian collared-doves. First though, a qualification to the use of the term “non-native.” ...

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