Such is the paradox of disgust and delight that frays our relationship with this portly, greasy-greenish-black bird. Mike Stark’s “Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird” is a ...

The RSPB's annual Big Garden Birdwatch has shown that while house sparrows are still our most common bird, followed by the blue tit, starlings have been bumped down to fourth place by the woodpigeon.

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Starlings have dropped to their lowest ever recorded numbers in Britain, results from the world’s largest garden wildlife survey have found. Prior to 2000, the species was regularly the most ...

Starlings gather in huge flocks creating aerial displays known as murmurations (Owen Humphreys/PA) Although the birds are found across the UK, with numbers swelling during winter when more of the ...

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Once a common sight, the starling, a charismatic garden bird, dropped from third to fourth place for the most commonly spotted species in the annual birdwatch - with an 85 per cent decline in ...

The lowest number of starlings on record have been spotted in the RSPB’s long-running Big Garden Birdwatch citizen science scheme, the charity said. The charismatic garden bird dropped from ...