Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of ...

For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue ...

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 ...

“What time are the birds due?” asked the woman beside me. The curtains would open on the starlings of the show – a cast of thousands – at 5:50pm on a chilly February day in Lilliput on the ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...

Ecologist Mike Dilger explained that the footage captured the birds snacking on worms and beetles ahead of a murmuration before nightfall. "It's probably about a tenth of the entire population ...