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.

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 ...

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?

At sunset, huge groups of starlings take to the sky, swooping and swirling into spheres, planes and waves. The phenomenon is called a murmuration, and it's named after the noise that is made by the ...

The photographer, who’s based in London, started taking images of murmurations – the name given to a flock of starlings – in an effort to reconnect with nature, and reflect on the loss of freedom ...

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 ...

According to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) there are a number of reasons why starlings do this, including grouping together for heat and safety. The murmuration in east ...

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 ...

The starling murmurations at RSPB Ham Wall are growing increasingly popular with tourists After an hour of build-up, the chatter of half a million starlings had approached its crescendo.

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 ...