Thousands of birds spotted over a farmland in a defensive flight

A huge cloud of hundreds of thousands of birds, was spotted over farmland in Cumbria, UK, composed of a beautiful murmuration of starlings flies over a field at dusk before landing to roost. Ornithologists believe that murmurations offer safety in numbers from predators trying to target individuals.

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