Webbeautiful and eerie photographs of starlings in flight.

Webwhy do starlings 'dance' in the sky?

The physicists analysed video footage of starling flocks ranging in size from 10 birds to 3,000 to develop a mathematical model.

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They dip and soar, bunch together and spread.

Here's a video showing their patterns in the sky.

Webjust before sunset, there among the cupolas, starlings mass by the hundreds of thousands, performing an aerial dance.

Photographer richard barnes captures the mesmerizing geometric patterns created by flocks of.

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