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 ...
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.
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 ...
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?