Daniel was mesmerised by the movements of the starlings as they formed colossal organic shapes in the sky. Each day, as they returned from foraging, they would gather in large numbers and perform ...

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 ...

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 ...

A video showing a stunning murmuration of starlings has captivated viewers on TikTok. The clip, shared by user Curtis Bicknell (@curtisbicknell), was posted on January 17 and has since received ...

A Co Westmeath photographer captured a starling murmuration in Co Westmeath yesterday evening. Local photographer John McCauley caught the mesmerising scene at Lough Ennell, close to Mullingar.

A spectacular murmuration of starlings has been seen gathering at dusk over Coolham, West Sussex. The video taken by Jayne Lovett on Monday (27 January) shows hundreds of birds flying in formation ...

Anna Tosney took the photo while she walked on Gargrave Road in Skipton at dusk on Friday A photo of a starling murmuration doubling as smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its ...

They're tiny songbirds known as starlings. Starlings flock together in thousands. Their shifting movements are called "murmurations." How can they fly so close without bumping into each other?

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.

Bottom: A bench is caked with starling droppings in the suburb of EUR. The contrast between the transfixing 30-minute murmuration and the subsequent mess makes for an uneasy relationship between ...