After weeks of regular murmuration exhibitions by starlings in the sky above Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, a local resident finally filmed the birds flying in hypnotic patterns above his ...

The European starling -- long known as a virtuoso songbird and as an expert mimic too -- may also soon gain a reputation as something of a "grammar-marm." This three-ounce bird, new research shows, ...

Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature's most extraordinary sights: Just a few ...

In a phenomenon called "Black Sun," starlings in Denmark fill the sky at dusk on their way to their winter grounds. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

A breathtaking natural spectacle in Italy on February 23: a flock of starlings was preparing for migration. The murmuration created dazzling patterns in the sky.

At least some birds can learn a pattern once proposed as unique to the grammars of human languages, say researchers. Starlings trained in a lab have learned to distinguish between sounds strung ...

Photographer Richard Barnes was in Rome in 2005 and 2006 working on finishing his book, Animal Logic. As it turned out, he got more material for the book as well as a new project. During a day in ...

You incorrectly use the flocking of starlings in murmurations to illustrate the concept of 'active matter' in determining the physics of life (Nature 529, 16–18; 2016). This behaviour depends on ...

I begin each day with a hint of emotional blindness: The deafening quietude of noise calms the purpose ahead: I often imagine patrolling the streets my camera needs to see: Sightless heart, ears in ...

Young, naïve starlings are looking for their wintering grounds independently of experienced conspecifics. Starlings are highly social birds throughout the year, but this does not mean that they copy ...