Starling vs Murmurate - What's the difference?
starling | murmurate |
A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
# The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris , which has dark, iridescent plumage.
A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge.
A California fish, the .
Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.
* 2009 , Daniel Butler,
* 2013 , Ruth Bass,
As a proper noun starling
is from a nickname for a gregarious person.As a verb murmurate is
of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.starling
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* (l)murmurate
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The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph:
- By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.
Word playing gives birds new nicknames, The Berkshire Eagle:
- There's a glister of goldfinches, an exaltation of larks, a swoop of swallows, a chain of bobolinks, a scold of blue jays, a murmuration of starlings, which are at their best when they murmurate by the hundreds across a gray sky.