Artie W., age 9, Astoria, New York 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 ...

At sunset, huge groups of starlings take to the sky, swooping and swirling into spheres, planes and waves. The phenomenon is called a murmuration, and it's named after the noise that is made by the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. These amazing flocks of starlings were filmed in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The "murmuration" of starlings, as this phenomenon is known, is used as a survival tactic ...