What is a group of birds called? Discover the complete list of collective nouns for birds and the historical stories behind ...

For her final production as Artistic Director of Washington, D.C.-based Chamber Dance Project (CDP), Diane Coburn Bruning ...

June 2026, including Chris Van Voorst Van Beest, Kristaps Vanadzinsh, Nico Widdowson Trio, Ada Bird Wolfe, Miguel Zenón & ...

The impact of South Africa’s 30 June anti-immigration protests was doubtlessly terrifying for many foreign nationals. Yet the unofficial deadline for undocumented immigrants to leave the country was ...

While I was driving last week, I had to pull over. I saw my first murmuration of autumn. Murmurations are the patterns that birds create when they gather en-mass and build fluid, rapidly shifting ...

Have you ever glanced up at the sky in late summer or the fall and seen a huge flock of birds create the most amazing shapes? Seemingly moving as one, the shape swoops, twists, and rotates, ...

Doug Gillard has played in a lot of bands over the last 30+ years — Cobra Verde, Guided by Voices, My Dad is Dead, Children’s Crusade, to name four — but you can hear a little Nada Surf on this latest ...

The Chicago-reared, Vermont-based folk singer-songwriter Hannah Frances released her stunning album Nested In Tangles last fall. Today she's back with the deluxe edition, headlined by a new ...

A murmuration, composed primarily of European starlings, swirls in synchronicity above Santa Cruz as seen from Hagar Meadow at UC Santa Cruz. These birds, occasionally joined by a few tricolor ...

These birds — starlings, I later learned — were not just flying about haphazardly. They were clustered together, flying in smaller packs, in a manner so strange I felt my stomach drop. The birds ...

Quick Take Murmuration Mechanics Why Do Starlings Form Murmurations? Do Other Birds Form Murmurations? Starlings can reach speeds of up to 40 mph within a murmuration, yet no birds bump into each ...

Birdwatchers at the Yellow River estuary in eastern China witnessed thousands of migratory birds sweeping across the sky in a vast, synchronized murmuration. The rare display unfolded on December 7 ...