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 ...
Andrew started following the starling murmurations, at their roosts in Brighton, on Britain’s south coast, in November 2013. ‘Many photographers have explored this subject, and so I challenged myself ...
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?
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.
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 ...
He shared several images on Facebook, writing: "Whilst walking my dog, the murmination of starlings over town centre tonight." Murmurations form when large numbers of starlings, which are now ...
An iconic murmuration of starlings above the Belfast skyline has returned, a year after concerns that it had been displaced. The gathering of thousands of the birds creates a spectacular display ...
People living in Kent Square, Great Yarmouth, say starling murmurations may be beautiful - but the nesting birds create a hygiene risk. Laser lighting and tree trimming have so far failed to deter ...