A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits ...

Noisy. Drab. Pest. These are common reactions when I mention the starling. That is totally understandable. They are indeed loud, nonnative, and commonplace. But they have one amazing super power.

Winter starlings are black with white spots, but spring starlings can be brilliantly iridescent. Photo by Jeff Tome You can find birds living just about anywhere if you stop to look around for a bit, ...

Over the past six years, Danish photographer Søren Solkær has followed huge flocks of starlings, known as murmurations, across Europe to film and photograph their breathtaking aerial acrobatics. When ...

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DRAPER, Utah — Maybe you've noticed their shapes in the sky or possibly heard their mimicking song — or maybe you're like Brooklyn Blackett and have heard and seen them poop on your car. "When they ...

Like the collective motions of bird flocks, the patterns result from the concerted interactions of many individual particles without a central coordinator. Credit: Wikipedia. Like the collective ...

Thoothukudi (Tamil Nadu) [India], December 15 (ANI): Over the past few days, Thoothukudi district in Tamil Nadu has been seeing large flocks of Rosy Starling birds, creating stunning formations as ...

SALT LAKE CITY - The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare - or, better yet, a few of his strangest fans. Had the Bard not mentioned the starling in ...

THOOTHUKUDI: Thousands of rosy starlings, a migratory bird species from Eastern Europe and northwest Asia, have descended on water bodies and urban areas across Thoothukudi. Huge flocks of birds were ...

Thousands of starlings are gathering across the UK right now – and the next few weeks offer the best chance for families to witness a murmuration before the season ends. Murmurations are often ...