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

For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue to surprise them.

Some are more special than others: a series of displays on Anglesey were so spectacular, they drew people from across Wales ...

A "breathtaking" attack by what was believed to be a peregrine falcon on a murmuration of thousands of starlings has been captured on video. Alex Cunningham managed to film the "incredible" spectacle ...

A drone photographer captured a bird’s-eye view of a starling murmuration over the picturesque seaside town of Aberystwyth, Wales, as thousands of the birds swooped together in a mesmerizing formation ...

Ecologist Mike Dilger explained that the footage captured the birds snacking on worms and beetles ahead of a murmuration before nightfall. "It's probably about a tenth of the entire population ...

She said the dominant theory behind murmurations was that the formations allowed the birds to avoid predators as they come to roost, using "safety in numbers" by joining up in tight-knit groups.