These coordinated movements of a flock of starlings follow no plan or leader. Scientists used to think the animals must ...

This Dec. 3, 2024, murmuration in Hagerstown was most likely European starlings evading a predator, likely a hawk, according to a Potomac Audubon rep.

The phenomenon is called a murmuration, and it's named after the noise that is made by the many flapping wings of a group of starlings in flight. Thousands of starlings from colder European countries ...

Two thousand years earlier, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder marvelled at the murmuration: “It is peculiar to starlings [...] to fly in crowds, and wheel about as if it were a ball,” he wrote.

Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling is arguably and problematically the most successful bird on the continent. Often characterized as bold ...

A murmuration is a mass aerial stunt - thousands of birds all swooping and diving in unison together. Conservationists are hopeful thousands of starlings could return to roost under Belfast's ...

An curved arrow pointing right. These amazing flocks of starlings were filmed in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The "murmuration" of starlings, as this phenomenon is known, is used as a survival tactic ...