by Breathtaking new stills and footage capture the beauty and acrobatic skills of tens of thousands of starlings as they swarm and sweep across dusk skies in Europe.
The mesmerizing shots were taken by Danish photographer Søren Solkær, who has followed the majestic birds for six years across Europe.
Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) flock to form what are known as murmurations, named after the noise their thousands of flapping wings make during these events.
Starling murmurations can contain more than a million birds, all swooping in unison to create evocative shapes in the sky.
Starlings are migratory birds that sport black feathers with a purply-green sheen and speckled with white in the winter.
Come autumn, they leave their breeding grounds in Northern Europe and fly to milder regions around the Mediterranean and as far as the Middle East.
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The mesmerizing shots were taken by Danish photographer Søren Solkær, who has followed the majestic birds for six years across Europe.
Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) flock to form what are known as murmurations, named after the noise their thousands of flapping wings make during these events.
Starling murmurations can contain more than a million birds, all swooping in unison to create evocative shapes in the sky.
Starlings are migratory birds that sport black feathers with a purply-green sheen and speckled with white in the winter.
Come autumn, they leave their breeding grounds in Northern Europe and fly to milder regions around the Mediterranean and as far as the Middle East.
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