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European Starling (also called common starling) are originally from Europe and East Asia. In the early 1890s a flock of 100 birds was intentionally introduced in New York City’s Central Park.

The amazing European Starling is one of those birds. European Starling at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Because of its reputation as a hyper-aggressive and generally disliked bird, ...

I crept around the back corner of my grandfather’s house, BB gun in hand. The bing cherry tree outside the front porch was ...

A particular bird that’s mostly black and often is considered to be a member of the blackbird family is the European Starling — but it is not!

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 ...

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in ...

Many familiar birds of the urban environments represent species that were introduced from outside of North America. In Iowa, these include rock pigeon, European starling and house sparrow, which ...

“Starlings: the Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird” by Mike Stark, Bison Books, 272 pages, $24.95 (paperback). Mike Stark is a Tucson-based journalist and writer whose previous book ...