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

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