Most people probably wouldn't think of cats and birds together as a match made in heaven: after all, one is a predator, the other is prey. But there are exceptions to every rule, and the unusually ...

European Starlings don’t "talk" like parrots, but they are amazing mimics. They can sound like alarm clocks or other appliances or other birds, and they can even mimic human speech with incredible ...

Mozart had a number of pets over the course of his short life, but one stands out above all the others: his pet starling. The bird first attracted Mozart's attention in May of 1784 when he heard it ...

Experts say pet birds only mimic the sounds of human speech, but Patti Kearney thinks her starling, Murray the Bird, may have taken it a step further. The Ocean City resident, who raised Murray from ...

Naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt took her research on Mozart to a whole new level when she invited a young starling into her home. When beginning a new writing project, naturalist and author ...

When beginning a new writing project, naturalist and author Lyanda Lynn Haupt takes her research seriously. For her new book, Mozart's Starling, Haupt dutifully traveled to Austria, to see Wolfgang ...