Young, na ve starlings are looking for their wintering grounds independently of experienced conspecifics. Starlings are highly social birds throughout the year, but this does not mean that they copy ...
A mesmerising starling murmuration was captured on film swooping over the sea at Cleethorpes. The spectacle was recorded on Wednesday at sunrise by 59-year-old Bruce Martin. "I would've taken much ...
All migrations are seasonal and follow weather patterns which set up food abundances that chase through the airscape, ...
Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...
When songbirds migrate through the Americas, they often cut through sections of the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to save ...
The starlings that make a noisy nuisance of themselves in many a U.S. town have been attacked with everything from stuffed owls to roman candles. They generally return to their roosts, loud and sassy, ...
Great efforts have been made to curtail the introduction of exotic species into the wild. One reason is because some become too successful, threatening the well-being of native species. Many plants ...
To find out how migrating birds find their way, starlings were relocated from autumn stopovers along the Dutch North Sea coast to Switzerland (red, 1948–1957) and Spain (blue, 1959–1962). Young, naïve ...
A mesmerising starling murmuration was captured on film swooping over the sea at Cleethorpes. The spectacle was recorded on Wednesday at sunrise by 59-year-old Bruce Martin. "I would've taken much ...