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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together ...

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, ...

At sunset in winter in Spain, thousands of starlings gather in enormous flocks, named murmurations for the low fluttering thunder of their wings. The birds move in astounding unison, each mimicking ...

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 ...

In the school scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s terrifying 1963 classic, The Birds, a flock of black birds rapidly multiplies, steadily filling a spooky, silent playground. Imagine that, but multiply it by ...

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