Despite the name, these invasive birds are not actually sparrows but weaver finches, related to other weavers in Africa and elsewhere. European Starling Starlings, which are from Europe and Asia, ...

Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling is arguably and ... fall adults look very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black plumage ...

I was hosing bird droppings—a staggeringly copious amount of them—off my front stoop when I saw one author of the mess parked ...