Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling is arguably and ... but fresh fall adults look very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black ...

One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find multiple starling species within the same murmuration. During murmuration ...

For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue to surprise them. A convergence of starlings swirls above St. Peter’s ...

The shapes we see in starling murmurations are an example of “emergent behaviour” ... from relatively simple underlying rules’ ...

Researchers recently observed a fledged European starling help its parents feed the next generation of chicks. This behaviour has been observed in other species of starling, but this is a rare example ...