In the evening, birds gather one after another in the street trees in front of the station.Although there were only a few at ...

Some evenings, the sky seems to reorganize itself in real time. A dense flock of starlings sweeps across the sky, tightening into a dark band before stretching into a wider, shifting shape. “During ...

As twilight settles in, thousands of starlings gather overhead. From a distance, they resemble a living cloud, constantly shifting and reshaping across the evening sky. The flock sweeps low over a ...

The mesmerising swirls of pre-roost starlings have been popularised by wildlife TV programmes such as Winterwatch, used by businesses as a visual reference for teamwork, and, in recent years, ...

Here's a closer look at European starlings, considered the embodiment of a nuisance. And what to do if they overrun your feeders.