Social media users claimed the video of the murmuration — when starlings gather in the thousands at dusk — was recorded in ...

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.

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.

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 ...

In the field next door, a handful of swallows ... The birds will devour them. Happily, the starling season is about to begin. While walking a small back road in Roscommon one evening last week ...