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 ...

BEND - Roughly 15,000 starlings were recently poisoned in an effort to reduce what many consider to be a nuisance species. Officials from Wildlife Services, an animal control unit of the U.S.

DEAR JOAN: It is all well and good for the people who live in America that are looking for help in sorting out their bully birds, but what about us people in Scotland and England who have problems ...

European starlings are one of my favorite "winter’s coming" birds. We have a couple that nest during the summer in a cavity high up in a dead poplar, but rarely see them. This time of year, however, ...

When William Shakespeare wrote Henry IV, Part 1 in the 1500s, little could he have imagined that, 400 years later, it would ...

Thick chattering flocks of European starlings are a common sight in South Florida this time of year, products of a Shakespeare fan’s long-ago folly but a hint that summer’s fire will soon extinguish.