It required a bit of an ethical adjustment. Here I was, sitting patiently in a blind, watching a tethered European Starling on a string....

        There’s an apartment building just across the alley from mine. It’s a real…”fixer upper” to say the least. It’s been...

“Nay, I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but ‘Mortimer,’”: – Henry IV, Part 1 And with that line from the...

Throughout most of North America, European Starling is a four letter word. There are groups dedicated to species like Eastern Bluebirds and Purple Martins...

One day my wildlife rehabilitator friend Marilyn brought me a black shoebox decorated with 6 or 8 quarter-sized holes. Energetically sticking his head out,...

Everyone probably knows the story of how the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) came to the shores of America during the 19th century, but for...

SUPER STARLINGS Tanzania plays host to a wide variety of Starlings, over twenty species in fact. In California we have the feisty intelligent generalist...

Now that there are 7 billi0n of us on this planet, it seems appropriate to look at and appreciate other great big collections of...