Watch thousands of birds fly in tight formation—a mesmerizing behavior known as a starling murmuration. | National Geographic

Murmurations are flocks of starlings (a type of bird) that fly in sync in twists and turns creating beautiful cloud-like formations in the sky. While it may look a little scary to encounter, (Alfred Hitchcock, anyone?) it's the starlings' way of scaring off predators. This murmuration was captured on video just west of Rees Elementary in Spanish Fork. #murmuration #starlings #birds #flockofbirds #thebirds #bird #murmurationofstarlings #goodvideo #wow #caughtoncamera #nature #incredible #utahnews

Superb starling singing (Lamprotornis superbus) East Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania. | BIRDS & Nature

🪶 Here rests a little bird called Starling, Foolish little Darling. Eulogy for Starling, 1787, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “When Mozart’s pet starling drops dead, he gets his friends together and they stage a funeral procession while singing hymns.” “This bird in a cage is precisely what young Mozart was, but it's also a displacement for his father’s funeral… and there's a new Mozart who is born out of that death. That new Mozart is not the same delightful charmer. He is a deep, dark figure now, an