During summer, the European starling has a yellow beak and a glossy black body with iridescence. Photo by Rhododentrites (creativecommons.org/licenses) Species ...

At dusk across parts of Europe and North America, vast flocks of starlings gather in the sky and twist into shifting black clouds known as murmurations. These formations can involve thousands or even ...

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 ...

Have you ever glanced up at the sky in late summer or the fall and seen a huge flock of birds create the most amazing shapes? Seemingly moving as one, the shape swoops, twists, and rotates, ...

SANTA CRUZ — A murmuration of European starlings pulsates over houses on Quarry Lane in Santa Cruz as the sky is painted in warm hues by the sunset. The starlings, occasionally joined by a few ...