The team chose starlings as the test birds and set ... or not choosing to fly behind another bird. They also found difficulty, in some cases, with measuring the data they received.

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Just as a sinuous impression appears when a snake slides across sand, he imagined, so must a pattern form in the wake of a flying bird ... “In winter the starlings gather in large groups ...

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How can they fly so close without bumping ... One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find multiple starling species ...

Leaders of Mankato and Henderson area Christmas Bird Counts agree it’s too early to determine if avian influenza has begun to ...

European starlings are one of my favorite "winter’s coming" birds. We have a couple that nest during the summer in a cavity high up in a dead poplar, but rarely see them. This time of year ...

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 can move fast – starlings fly up to 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour). The European or common starling, like many birds, forms groups called flocks when foraging for food ...