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"How starlings achieve such a strong correlation remains a mystery to us, " they wrote.

In winter thousands of starlings perform their murmurations round it, banking swiftly and silently in vast helices across the sky.

Master said: "The starlings do not shit the bed. "

Several hundred dead red-winged black birds, starlings, sparrows, and grackles have now turned up in Louisiana near Baton Rouge.

Collisions with power lines seem to have killed roughly 500 blackbirds and starlings in Louisiana on Tuesday.

It seemed as if the starlings had been hypnotised because they acted as if they were not being chased.

Thousands of the starlings earlier this month forced a Ryanair passenger jet to make an emergency landing at the city's Ciampino airport.

When you're small and vulnerable, like these starlings, or like the fish, it helps to swarm to avoid predators, to confuse predators.

And starlings actually appear to be innocent in the case of the missing bluebirds.

At sunset, Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus are often filled with the noise of thousands of starlings .

There was not a sound but the starlings, wheeling and flocking, wheeling and turning over the edge of Afghanistan.

"We may need some of the American starlings to be returned, " Gregory jokes.

To makematters worse, starlings spread diseases that infect both humans andlivestock, costing a further $800 million a year in healthcare.

The starlings would launch out of the yard and into the air as one.

Granted, I've only mentioned baboons and starlings, but there you've got a mammalian representative and an avian one.

A murmuration of starlings -- even the word sounds great.

He and his colleagues suspect that pesticides and the loss of pastureland have eliminated many insects on which starlings feed.

Flocks of, say, starlings or herds of wildebeest do not count as real societies.

But perhaps starlings aren't so bad. When the sun hits their feathers just right, they do have a certain iridescent attractiveness.

By the time he attempted this picture, Darren had spent three years photographing starlings.

Starlings are systematic in their approach and methodically strip bushes from the top down.

One, of starlings, concluded that these birds become optimistic or pessimistic based on living conditions.

A plague of starlings in Tamworth Australia has driven desperate locals to try an unusual scare tactic.

The starlings, flying at warp speed, create incredible shapes that change minute-by-minute, second-by-second.

A flock of starlings flew over Gretna Green, on Scottish borders, putting on a spectacular show.

One of the biggest such events occurred in 1986, when 30, 000 Ohioan blackbirds and starlings were poisoned over a period of eight days.

The birds, brown starlings with dark feathers and orange beaks, can parrot human speech. Mr.

Before they settle down, the starlings put on one of the most spectacular shows in the natural world.

Far below, beneath a swirl of starlings , we could see the plains melt into those of Afghanistan, Alexander's route here from Persia.

Emerald starlings are fairly small when compared with other such birds.

By 1950 starlings could be found coast to coast, north past Hudson Bay and south into Mexico.

No matter where we can see that after a tuning of starlings scholars to speak.

Earlier, the Romanian Black Sea city of Constanta Yijuminlou just before the death occurred more than 30 European starlings.

They determined, for example, that a 47-million-year-old feather had the dark iridescent sheen found on starlings today.

Perhaps we should all be breeding starlings in our back gardens now before the unthinkable happens.

The unsightly result of flocks of thousands of starlings flying over Rome

Starlings at sunset over the West Pier, Brighton by Barry Rohde of Brighton, East Sussex

Analyzing Starlings scene of the developing forces of socialism

Starlings cool off in a fountain in Washington DC