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 ...

Starlings are considered an aggressive ... This appears to be an adaptation for feeding in thick grassy fields where the closed bill is inserted between plants and pries apart the grass to ...

(Starling murmurations are dazzling ... “You can’t go into the field and wait for a predator to attack, which might happen one day in two months,” Papadopoulou told me.

But for a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers crunched two decades of field data to show that unrelated members of a superb starling flock often help each other raise ...

A 20-year field study of the African superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus) found striking evidence that birds often switch breeding roles from year to year by taking turns as ‘breeders’ or ...

Now, a new study with 20-years of field data, published in the journal Nature, has discovered that the African superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus) forms mixed-kin groups with anywhere from 7 ...