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

The shapes we see in starling murmurations are an example of “emergent behaviour” ... from relatively simple underlying rules’ ...

If one starling changes its flight direction or speed, the birds around it also change their flight direction or speed. This ...

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 ...

Widespread and abundant in much of North America, the introduced European starling is arguably and ... fall adults look very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black plumage ...

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 ...

Starling Group has said it is “very committed” to future plans for a London stock market listing as the digital lender revealed higher interest rates helped annual profits surge by 55%.

Saturday’s event, organised by conservation group Wild Belfast ... Wild Belfast founder Conor McKinney said the starling murmurations have now stabilised after being reduced to dozens before ...

Examples of transmissible bird diseases associated with pigeons, geese, starling and house sparrows: Besides being direct carriers of disease, nuisance birds are frequently associated with over 50 ...

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 ...