Common Starling Parents Called Less Often as Their Nestlings Grew Older
Common starling parents called on 62% of feeding visits when chicks were two days old but only 4%…
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Recent Starlings in Western Australia Differed Genetically from the 2000s Population
Starlings detected in Western Australia in 2017–2024 were genetically distinct from birds sampled there in the 2000s, a…
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PFAS Exposure Was Linked to Oxidative Stress in Starling Chicks, but Not to Similar Changes in Great Tits
Eggs near an Italian fluoropolymer plant contained up to ten times more PFAS. Starling nestlings showed signs of…
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Starlings Were Recorded Less Often Near Point Cook Runways During Three Years of Hazing
Across 590 hazing events at Point Cook RAAF Base, starlings were recorded less often in runway-critical areas over…
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Female Starlings, but Not Males, Showed an Early Response to Shifted Song–Wing Timing
In a field experiment in western Poland, female common starlings showed a renewed response when the timing between…
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Most Iberian jackdaws share winter roosts with other species
A census of 232 roosts in Spain and Portugal found that 71.6 per cent were shared with other…
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Different Parts of the Same Starling Flock Used Different Escape Patterns Simultaneously
RobotFalcon field trials showed that one part of a starling flock could turn while another split, dived or…
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No Pesticide Residues Detected in Starling Faeces in Farmland Insectivore Study
A 2026 study linked pesticide residues in insect-eating birds and bats to their use of aquatic habitats. Residues…
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Habitat and Prey Traits Shaped Sparrowhawk Diet Around 62 Czech Nests
A 2026 Czech study of 1,107 prey items from 62 Eurasian sparrowhawk nests found that diet composition varied…
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French Wildlife Culling Was Not Linked to Lower Reported Damage
A 2026 national evaluation of ten native species found no relationship between lethal-control effort and lower reported damage…
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Only 4.5% of Latvian Starlings Were Assigned to Long-Distance Moult Migration
Stable isotopes in feathers from 291 Latvian-breeding common starlings indicated that 86.2% moulted in the Baltic region, while…
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