The Javan pied starling (Gracupica jalla) was once common across the Indonesian island of Java, but has now disappeared from the wild, thanks in large part to the songbird trade. A new study that ...

This photo was taken near my birdfeeder Dec. 6, 2013, after an early winter snowstorm. The bird is a native to Europe and western Asia. It is called the European starling or "common starling." The ...

I grew up in Maryland, where starlings could get no respect. They often won the battle for nesting cavities and nest boxes, destroyed eggs and sometimes killed the young in other species’ nests, were ...

Over time, birds evolved the ability to sing, and with that came a burst of evolutionary change that continues today, with ...

The Americana band Brother Starling gets their name from the starling songbird — birds known for following each other with exact precision when flying in a flock. This name is apt considering the ...

Little, Brown and Company, 277 pages, $27. The story goes that one day Mozart was walking along a street in Vienna and heard, from a pet shop, a bird singing a phrase from his new piano concerto. How ...