A multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team of researchers in the U.S. has found that starlings that fly in a follower position expend 25% less energy than when they fly solo.

A murmuration is the early evening display performed by hundreds, or even thousands, of starlings as they fly and change direction in unison before settling down to roost for the night.

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?

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A spectacular murmuration of starlings has been seen gathering at dusk over Coolham, West Sussex. The video taken by Jayne Lovett on Monday (27 January) shows hundreds of birds flying in formation ...

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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.

They look like swirling blobs, making teardrops, figure eights, columns and other shapes. A murmuration can move fast – starlings fly up to 50 miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour). The European or ...