Studies have shown that individual starlings move around within the flock to try to minimise their time on the edge where ...

No... these aren't storm clouds. They're tiny songbirds known as starlings. Starlings flock together in thousands. Their shifting movements are called "murmurations ...

It is a matter of some interest to know whence come the starlings that flock to London at night, and R. W. Hale has discovered one of the sources. He has watched the birds feeding on and near ...

And 'Tip of the Week' is about identifying the different kinds of bird call, whether it's the contact call or the alarm ...

Flocks of starlings form ever-changing, mesmerising aerial displays in autumn and winter. The European or common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, is a familiar sight in our cities and towns. You might have ...

They have, at times, been viewed as a nuisance too. Through the 20th century starlings would flock in cities in great numbers. Sources from the 1920s describe them roosting on the roof of the ...

Anyone who sees starlings in their garden is being urged to do three things to help them as soon as possible as they face a ...

Flocking together provides safety in numbers. Predators like peregrine falcons struggle to target a single bird amid a ...

Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together in the sky? – Artie W., age 9, Astoria, New York A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as ...

ROME — This time of year in Rome, the evening sky is a marvel. Just before sunset, there among the cupolas, starlings mass by the hundreds of thousands, performing an aerial dance. They dip and ...