1) Starling populations in west-central Illinois dropped to one of its lowest levels of the year in July 1965 (100 birds per 100 miles of census route) as a result of either young Starlings migrating ...

The communal aerobatic displays that huge flocks of starlings perform above their roosts of an evening are legendary. They are also devilish in their complexity. In the last few years, complexity ...

Guess which bird is one of the most beneficial for your lawn, garden and trees. Would you believe it just might be the much-despised, alien European starling? Yes, the starling, that noisy, aggressive ...

Of all the non-native plant and animal species currently in the United States, few have a stranger tale of introduction than the starling. The bird, whose full name is the European starling, is a ...

Why is a flock of starlings like a glass of water? The answer is that both are complex systems with many parts acting together as one. The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi has ...

Like the collective motions of bird flocks, the patterns result from the concerted interactions of many individual particles without a central coordinator. Credit: Wikipedia. Like the collective ...

European starlings are one of my favorite "winter’s coming" birds. We have a couple that nest during the summer in a cavity high up in a dead poplar, but rarely see them. This time of year, however, ...

The same group previously described aspects of starling flocking with equations used to describe avalanches. The birds’ aerial formations don’t just transcend biology, but span multiple physical ...

Indeed, as Brawn and his colleagues published in 2010, sleep helps starlings learn new discrimination tasks. The researchers trained the birds to stick their beaks in a hole, a natural starling ...

Wild and caged Starlings were studied to describe the behavior patterns of agonistic significance. Wild birds were watched in all seasons, while study of the caged birds was confined mainly to birds ...

A swirling “bird tornado” over farmland near Torrington turned out to be a flock of European starlings. While a sight to see, ...