For centuries, researchers have pondered how starlings travel in those gorgeous shape-shifting clouds ... Edmund Selous argued that a starling murmuration, which he described as “a madness ...

Just as we see pictures in the clouds, our unconscious ability to discern meaning from patterns interprets the murmuration shapes as peacocks, pigs or fish. The co-ordinated swirling looks ...

During murmuration, starlings are constantly on the move. The unpredictability of their shapes is a mesmerizing phenomenon. More from Science No... these aren't storm clouds. They're tiny ...

Daniel was mesmerised by the movements of the starlings as they formed colossal organic shapes in the sky. Each day, as they returned from foraging, they would gather in large numbers and perform ...

The birds gather and fly together making shape-shifting clouds, known as murmurations. The ecologist said the starling murmuration on the Somerset Levels is the largest is North Western Europe.