I was hosing bird droppings—a staggeringly copious amount of them—off my front stoop when I saw one author of the mess parked ...

Fewer starlings are visiting UK gardens, according to the conservation charity, the RSPB. It says its Big Garden Birdwatch, which took place over the last weekend in January, recorded the lowest ...

The Starlings species is on a red list and considered a high conservation concern due to their declining numbers. The UK ...

The lowest number of starlings on record have been spotted in the RSPB’s long-running Big Garden Birdwatch citizen science scheme, the charity said. The charismatic garden bird dropped from ...

open image in gallery A murmuration of hundreds of thousands of starlings flying over a field at dusk in Cumbria (Owen Humphreys/PA Wire) Ms Speight said: “Starlings are one of our most ...

Infections with parasites often entail no recognizable signs in many wildlife species, but can have still negative effects across generations. Infected animals often have a slightly reduced body size ...

Starlings were supposed to control agricultural insect pests in fields, vineyards and orchards; instead they descended like a black curtain, eating grain meant for livestock and fruit meant for ...

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Starlings saw numbers fall to their lowest on record in this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch (Ben Andrew/RSPB/PA) The lowest number of starlings on record have been spotted in the RSPB’s long ...