Starlings are gathering across the UK right now – and the next few weeks offer the best chance for families to witness a murmuration before ...

Ms Shelton said: "In the winter, they roost together for warmth, in their wintering grounds, whereas in the summer they are ...

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 ...

After an hour of build-up, the chatter of half a million starlings had approached its crescendo. I pulled my binoculars to my eyes and saw a motorway of starlings, whizzing from right to left just ...

This starling murmuration video filmed in Ireland will have you in complete awe of nature. Crowds are flocking to Timoleague, Co Cork, to witness amazing starling murmurations in person after several ...

Murmuration refers to the phenomenon that results when hundreds, sometimes thousands, of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns through the sky. Maybe you've seen a murmuration ...

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Throughout the northern hemisphere, the dark cold months between November and February are the time when European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris, come together every evening into large flocks known as ...

In the school scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s terrifying 1963 classic, The Birds, a flock of black birds rapidly multiplies, steadily filling a spooky, silent playground. Imagine that, but multiply it by ...

A starling murmuration is a breathtaking sight. Hundreds, even thousands, of birds take flight simultaneously, creating a billowing cloud that changes shape and direction as the animals move in a ...

They swirl and divide, then, in a fraction of a second, they swoop together before swirling out in the opposite direction, masses of birds all together in an enormous flock. In the blink of an eye, as ...