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

On winter evenings throughout much of Europe and North America, an hour before sunset, thousands of starlings gather in the skies. Before descending to their nighttime roosts, the birds put on ...

The common European starling was recently placed on the red list as a bird of high conservation concern. In the UK, staring numbers have dropped by 67% since the early 1970s. The decline in starlings ...

One theory is that individual birds follow their neighbors' lead. There are nearly 120 species of starlings. You can find multiple starling species within the same murmuration. During murmuration ...

If birds left tracks in the sky ... were drained around 1950 for agricultural use and restored in 2005. “In winter the starlings gather in large groups,” says Bou, who took this photo in ...