Starlings in fall and winter are mostly black but often have white speckles all over them, especially noticeable close up. Starlings generally aren’t a problem at bird feeders, at least not the ...

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 ...

European Starling. Starlings, which are from Europe and Asia, were released into New York City in 1890.They are among North ...

The Starling (Druid / Sturnus vulgaris). The non-breeding plumage is dark glossy, heavily spotted — most concentrated on the head — with pale brown-edge wing feathers and a dark beak.

European starlings are one of my favorite "winter’s coming" birds. We have a couple that nest during the summer in a cavity high up in a dead poplar, but rarely see them. This time of year ...

European starlings are not part of the blackbird family despite their coloring. Pierre Selim/CC BY-SA 3.0/WikiMedia CoMMons Red-winged blackbirds should return to the area in abundance in February.

Three of the most notable of these non-native birds in Marin are European starlings, house sparrows and Eurasian collared-doves. First though, a qualification to the use of the term “non-native.” ...

Some people believe flocks of black birds hanging out in our yards mean warm weather is coming. ... Leonard thinks they are likely European Starlings, Common Grackles or Brown-headed Cowbirds.

Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of a bird. One such photograph, for example, was shared on Reddit in 2019 ...

After the success of "Black Sun," Solkær decided to follow the starlings on their migration route across Europe. Many images in the book are taken in Rome, Italy — home to one of the largest ...

I was hosing bird droppings—a staggeringly copious amount of them—off my front stoop when I saw one author of the mess parked on a powerline above my house. In rapid succession, pitch-perfect ...