The European starling -- long known as a virtuoso songbird and as an expert mimic too -- may also soon gain a reputation as something of a "grammar-marm." This three-ounce bird, new research shows, ...

After weeks of regular murmuration exhibitions by starlings in the sky above Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, a local resident finally filmed the birds flying in hypnotic patterns above his ...

Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature's most extraordinary sights: Just a few ...

Flocks of acrobatic starlings have long delighted observers, from Shakespeare to the present day. The birds—sometimes by the thousands—often seem to move as one, coursing through the air at breakneck ...

You incorrectly use the flocking of starlings in murmurations to illustrate the concept of 'active matter' in determining the physics of life (Nature 529, 16–18; 2016). This behaviour depends on ...

Noisy. Drab. Pest. These are common reactions when I mention the starling. That is totally understandable. They are indeed loud, nonnative, and commonplace. But they have one amazing super power.

Photographer Richard Barnes was in Rome in 2005 and 2006 working on finishing his book, Animal Logic. As it turned out, he got more material for the book as well as a new project. During a day in ...