From 100 birds released in New York in 1890, its North American population passed 200 million within a century.
From Common Starling
It is known for forming huge coordinated flocks called murmurations.
From Common Starling
It is one of the most successful invasive birds in the world.
From Common Starling
A great mimic: it works other birds into its song, and even alarms and doorbells.
From Spotless Starling
It is a practically Iberian endemic: outside the peninsula and the Maghreb it does not exist, which makes the commonest bird of many Spanish villages a species with a very restricted world distribution.
From Spotless Starling
Its urban winter roosts gather tens of thousands of birds into a few trees and generate complaints from residents about noise and droppings in many Spanish cities.
From Spotless Starling
Metallic blue with an orange belly; it is the most conspicuous bird on any East African safari.
From Superb Starling
Its colonies practise a social reciprocity measured over the long term: a twenty-year study in Kenya showed that individuals who help to raise young receive help in return years later, even between unrelated birds.
From Superb Starling

Ecosystems