Some people can keep looking at the sky for hours together. Several people walk to the beaches or peacefully sit on their ...

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 ...

One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find multiple starling species within the same murmuration. During murmuration ...

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.

Known as a murmuration, the captivating spectacle occurs at dusk, just before the birds settle down to roost. These huge swarms peak in numbers between December and January when migrant starlings ...

The birds descend — and wreak havoc ... The contrast between the transfixing 30-minute murmuration and the subsequent mess makes for an uneasy relationship between the starlings and their ...

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 ...

A Co Clare photographer who captured a starling murmuration over recent days has ... said it was his first time witnessing the group of birds taking flight near the village of Fedamore in Co ...