But since 2003, the European goldfinch has successfully raised young along Lake Michigan between Chicago and Milwaukee. Now ...

Starlings are native to Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and tropical Pacific islands, but some can now be found worldwide. The starling family, Sturnidae, is a large one, with 128 species, all ...

Meanwhile, starlings are considered an invasive species, and they do a great deal of economic damage to industrial agriculture. So they eat grains from, like, cattle feedlots, for example.

Forsythia, for example, is not on any invasive species lists. Since I’ve been honest about my love for starlings, I’ll admit that I love our stand of forsythia, too.

All efforts to control or eradicate the starling by biological means have been thwarted by the amazing reproductive capacity of the species. Some reports estimate that more than 200 million ...

The view from the kitchen window of my second-floor apartment isn’t all that grand. Just a look at part of a parking area and an alley on one side and the back corner of the building beside my ...