Following his bestselling biographies of some of our favourite birds including The Robin The
Wren and The Owl - author and naturalist Stephen Moss now turns his attention to an incredible
bird that lives on nearly every continent and despite seeming plain at first glance takes our
breath away when they take to the skies in huge flocks - the Starling. Though it is easy to
overlook a solitary starling even with its beautiful iridescent plumage when they come
together in the thousands they take to the skies in awe-inspiring swooping flocks called
murmurations. Starlings live almost all over the world - they're are common bird throughout
Europe and the Palearctic to western Mongolia and are recent residents of Australia New
Zealand Canada the United States Mexico Argentina South Africa and Fiji migrating
seasonally as far North as Scandinavia. Discover how their love of fruit gets them into trouble
how they can help farmers by eating insects how their skill for mimicry has inspired centuries
of folklore and how they were brought to new continents by one man's passion for Shakespeare.
