Birdwatching reveals fierce battles, surprising adaptations and an amazing ability for these winged warriors to find food, ...

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 ...

(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.

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 ...

So, as you travel country roads, you may see a big flock of Starlings feeding on a lawn, in a grassy field, or along a grassy ditch where the highway salt may have melted the snow and ice.

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 ...