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    COME TOGETHER STARLING MURMURATIONS

    Nov 18, 2021 2 minutes

    OF ALL THE VARIED AND OFTEN ODD collective nouns for animals, few can be as well known – but also as mysterious – as a murmuration of starlings. Supposedly derived from the sound of thousands of fluttering wings passing overhead, the swirling, mesmerising show of starlings gathering at their winter roost is arguably the greatest ornithological spectacle Britain has to offer.

    Despite a recent decline

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