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 ...

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Why is a flock of starlings like a glass of water? The answer is that both are complex systems with many parts acting together as one. The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi has ...

Witness the breathtaking aerial ballets of starlings! These vast, coordinated flocks, known as murmurations, are not guided ...

On Nov. 12, 2024, Salem photographer Brian Stone was dazzled by thousands of starlings performing a magical murmuration over a vineyard ten miles west of Salem, near the Baskett Slough National ...

A mesmerizing murmuration of starlings was spotted by wildlife officials in Newport, Wales, on January 17. Video filmed by Josh Sankey of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Newport ...

For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds. The answers continue to surprise them. A convergence of starlings swirls above St. Peter’s ...

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