Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of a bird. One such photograph, for example, was shared on Reddit in 2019 ...

Photographer James Crombie THIS extraordinary image, taken as dusk approaches, looks like a soaring bird from a fantasy film. In reality, it is a murmuration – a huge swarm of starlings moving ...

When the birds fly together and move in complex patterns, it is known as a murmuration, usually involving a flock of starlings. (We don’t know if these were starlings, but they could have been. ) ...