The British Natural History Museum describes a starling murmuration as occurring when "huge groups of starlings take to the sky, swooping and swirling ... murmuration flock of starlings," that ...

In a bid to locate the best roosting sites at which to capture the spectacle, Daniel spent hours following the starlings around the city and suburbs of Rome. Finally, on this cloudless winter’s day, ...

These swirling formations, typically seen at dusk, are thought to serve several purposes – helping the birds stay warm, evade predators, and attract others to join the flock before roosting.

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