It is hard to avoid the female sex hormone estrogen and all the chemicals that mimic it: Not only do they show up in cosmetics and cleaning products, but they are also commonly used to make plastic ...

The research, led by the University of York, studied birds which were feeding at sewage farms. It found that worms, maggots and flies at the plants were found to contain many different pharmaceuticals ...

Researchers say starlings could understand changed sequences. Scientists are running out of things that they think truly separate humans from other animals. For a long time, the reigning difference ...

While women may cheat on men for personal reasons, superb starling females appear to stray from their mates for the sake of their chicks, according to new research. While women may cheat on men for ...

Colonial birds often demonstrate considerable breeding synchrony. In southern Sweden the semi-colonial European starling initiated the vast majority of clutches within one week. Laying dates were ...

In a 8-year study of the facultatively polygynous European Starling Sturnus vulgaris, apparent female mate desertion during the incubation/nestling period occurred in nine (7%) out of 132 breeding ...