A bird of prey, likely a peregrine falcon, launches at a murmuration of starlings above a housing estate near Chester Zoo. The footage was captured by Mayukh Chatterjee and Alex Cunningham, who work in conservation and education at the Zoo. #bird #murmuration #starlings #nature #falcon

A real treat this evening - spotted on the way to band practice! #murmuration

Birds of a Feather Flock Together

And such pretty feathers they have too, such a shame they haven't got a good PR agent, just because they are loud and ever so slightly violent at feeding time...

Sturnus vulgaris
Common Starling

#SilentSunday #murmuration Sorry for the occasionally shonky camerawork.

Aled Roberts, a drone photographer in Wales, captured stunning footage of a huge starling murmuration over the town of Aberystwyth.

Thousands of birds came together in a mesmerizing dance, twisting and rippling in unison in the sky above the coastal community.

C: Aled Roberts via Storyful

Les oiseaux du soir au dessus de #StMalo.
Ils empestent, mais c'est quand même joli.
#murmuration #birds

#birds #nature #murmuration

Yesterday afternoon at pub knit there was a small but perfectly reforming starling murmuration against a pinky-purple sky.

I did go outside and recorded my first ever video, which went surprisingly well.

Once I've figured out how to edit a clip, I'll have a go at uploading an extract.

Winter does have its consolations :)

Stunning images of murmuration captured in Westmeath

https://www.rte.ie/news/leinster/2025/0116/1491202-murmuration-westmeath/

Strata of Starlings

Starlings come together in groups of up to thousands of birds for the protection of numbers. These flocks form spellbinding, undulating masses known as murmurations, where the movement of individual starlings sends waves spreading from neighbor to neighbor through the group. One bird’s effort to dodge a hawk triggers a giant, spreading ripple in the flock.

To capture the flowing nature of the murmuration, photographer and scientist Kathryn Cooper layers multiple images of the starlings atop one another. The birds themselves become pathlines marking the murmuration’s motion. The final images are surprisingly varied in form. Some flocks resemble a downpour of rain; others the dangling branches of a tree. (Image credit: K. Cooper; via Colossal)

Not a perfect murmuration from a human perspective. Distant and brief. Still beautiful to see.

A follow up to my murmuration picture from a few days ago: here is a picture taken 15 minutes before 'the main event' when clouds of Starlings were flying in from all directions to join the flock.

It is estimated that birds fly in from a 15-20 mile / 25-40km radius each day to roost in the safety of the reeds.

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My photo guests were delighted to see nearly 500,000 murmurating Starlings forming a giant bird over the Somerset Levels this week.

Murmurations usually run from November through to February each year and can be found around the UK. The Somerset Levels, (wetlands) to the west of Glastonbury are one of the best known locations.