All kinds of birds have inspired music composers for at least seven centuries. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending” and Frederick Delius’ “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring” are relatively ...

Most people probably wouldn't think of cats and birds together as a match made in heaven: after all, one is a predator, the other is prey. But there are exceptions to every rule, and the unusually ...

When beginning a new writing project, naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt takes her research seriously. For her new book, Mozart's Starling, Haupt dutifully traveled to Austria, to see Wolfgang ...

Experts say pet birds only mimic the sounds of human speech, but Patti Kearney thinks her starling, Murray the Bird, may have taken it a step further. The Ocean City resident, who raised Murray from ...

It's the untold story of a famed composer’s relationship with his pet bird. In Mozart's Starling,Lyanda Lynn Haupt pieces together details scattered throughout letters, biographies, and musical ...

When naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt (@LyandaHaupt) decided to write the story of the relationship of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his pet starling, she knew that she had to do some ...

Patti Kearney was driving with her pet starling, Murray, through her hometown of Linwood when she was stopped at a police checkpoint looking for infractions such as cell phone use and not wearing a ...