POWELL — Flocks of European starlings, so many they look like leaves on trees, are passing through Powell on their yearly southern migration. Their chatter, sounding like a combination of bird and bug ...

Young, na ve starlings are looking for their wintering grounds independently of experienced conspecifics. Starlings are highly social birds throughout the year, but this does not mean that they copy ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

One of the sure signs of spring, Iowans are seeing huge congregations of birds filling the morning and evening skies, giant clouds of feathered creatures that often take several minutes to pass. Steve ...

We asked our friends at the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville to spotlight something fascinating about our state. Here, Bard meets bird. How did the European starling make it to ...

To find out how migrating birds find their way, starlings were relocated from autumn stopovers along the Dutch North Sea coast to Switzerland (red, 1948–1957) and Spain (blue, 1959–1962). Young, naïve ...