SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Dozens of Bay Area residents are flocking to a small strip mall in San Rafael, anchored by a Michael's and a Macy's, to see a curious scientific phenomenon: Thousands upon ...

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 ...

On November 30, 2022, in Barbezieux, France, @manuelbonneau2 shared a video of thousands of starlings flying together in a mesmerizing display. In the video, the birds move in synchronized, circular ...

RICHMOND — Murmuration is pretty easy to spell, but it’s not on many vocabulary lists. And starlings are not on many birders’ lists of wonderful creatures, being rather pesky, raucous birds that empty ...

A walker spotted an unusual murmuration of starlings flying just inches from the ground. Helen Day, 59, said the flock looked like a "dark spell" drifting across the grass, near Bangor, north Wales.

Sophie Windsor Clive and Liberty Smith happened upon a flock of starlings, called a murmuration, while canoeing at dusk, and captured "one of nature's greatest and most fleeting phenomena" on video.

Over 10 years ago while on a woodland hike with a friend in northwestern Pennsylvania, an intense low pitched pitter-patter sound from overhead startled us. Was it a sudden downpour on a sunny day?

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 ...

A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits apart and ...