A study of starlings in Africa shows that they form long-term social bonds similar to human friendships. The fact that humans who are not related by blood help each other repeatedly over time is ...

Birds form close bonds, just like human friendships, reveals new research. Starlings show “reciprocity” - helping each other with the expectation that the favor will eventually be returned, say ...

Such is the paradox of disgust and delight that frays our relationship with this portly, greasy-greenish-black bird. Mike Stark’s “Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird” is a ...

Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling is arguably ... very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black plumage has white spots all ...

“Starlings: the Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird” by Mike Stark, Bison Books, 272 pages, $24.95 (paperback). Mike Stark is a Tucson-based journalist and writer whose previous ...

The first brown bird that might come to mind is the sparrow, and several species come to my feeder. The house sparrow is common in cities and suburbs. Males have a gray head, black bib and light ...