Remarkable footage captures the moment a red-headed woodpecker evicts a starling squatting in its nest by yanking it out of a tree trunk. Woodpeckers and starlings are cavity nesters, meaning they ...

Winter starlings are black with white spots, but spring starlings can be brilliantly iridescent. Photo by Jeff Tome You can find birds living just about anywhere if you stop to look around for a bit, ...

Nest intruders are common in many avian species. In the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor), a passerine closely related to the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), it has been recently shown that ...

My professional respect for the biological success of starlings conflicts with my fondness for the native bird species they displace. The bird-watcher in me would rather see the native birds that ...

In Japan, the Chestnut-cheeked Starling is also known as the ‘cherry blossom bird’, as it arrives during cherry blossom season and favours cherry fruits. If I ever succeed in capturing photographs of ...

The people of Australia might not celebrate Thanksgiving, but every November, plenty of animals in the northeastern part of the continent have something to be thankful for, and they gather together ...

A team of researchers and Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas scientists are facing the prospect of an empty nest. And they couldn't be happier about it. The empty nest is the culmination of ...

Whether you feed the birds or not, chances are that you have some of nature’s pests in your back yard. They could be of the animal nature or even plants that quietly can take over your yard!