Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together ...

European starling (or maybe red-wing blackbird) murmuration in Hagerstown an amazing scene This Dec. 3, 2024, murmuration in Hagerstown was most likely European starlings evading a predator, likely a ...

Upon seeing a predator, a starling will alert the seven closest members of the flock, using a signal that was incomprehensible to the human mind, to cluster together and funnel toward the ground, ...

A murmuration, composed primarily of European starlings, swirls in synchronicity above Santa Cruz as seen from Hagar Meadow at UC Santa Cruz. These birds, occasionally joined by a few tricolor ...

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 curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together ...