Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of ...

Filmer, Kayla, stumbled upon a swirling symphony of birds pirouetting like they’ve been rehearsing for weeks. “This is a starling murmuration I seen on the way into town, they seem to do this ...

Together, they form massive flocks made up of thousands of birds. At sunset, huge groups of starlings take to the sky, swooping and swirling into spheres, planes and waves. The phenomenon is called a ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...

While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location.

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"The murmuration was so close to our estate ... theory behind murmurations was that the formations allowed the birds to avoid predators as they come to roost, using "safety in numbers" by joining ...

The "murmuration" of starlings, as this phenomenon is known, is used as a survival tactic by the small birds against predators. Music by MTT. Video produced by Alpaca Media. Follow PyroPix on ...

One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find multiple starling species within the same murmuration. During murmuration ...

Thousands of birds have been captured on camera swooping above a village at sunset. The starlings were spotted flying and changing direction in unison in Crick, Northamptonshire. Murmurations like ...

He started visiting the same lake spot in Ireland over successive nights, choosing different vantage points from which to view the birds. The routine became an obsession. He began a four-year ...