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 ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together ...

Ms Shelton said: "In the winter, they roost together for warmth, in their wintering grounds, whereas in the summer they are more focused on raising chicks in their nests. "One of the main reasons they ...

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

Richard Barnes, “Murmur #1” (2005), pigment print, 44 x 44 in (all images courtesy the artist and Foley Gallery) None of that is explained directly in the exhibition. You’re just faced with these ...

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.

Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith happened upon a flock of starlings, called a murmuration, while canoeing at dusk, and captured "one of nature's greatest and most fleeting phenomena" on video.

Over the past few days, Thoothukudi district in Tamil Nadu has been seeing large flocks of Rosy Starling birds, creating ...

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 ...