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 ...

While sitting on my back porch one day during late afternoon, my leisurely pursuit was interrupted as a large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location. The ...

Like the collective motions of bird flocks, the patterns result from the concerted interactions of many individual particles without a central coordinator. Credit: Wikipedia. Like the collective ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The late Oxford University biologist William D. Hamilton discussed the advantages of ...

Large clusters appearing on weather radars are likely massive flocks of migrating birds, not storms. A record-breaking 1.2 billion birds were estimated to be migrating in a single night during the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joan Strassmann, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) As I walked ...