Nature lovers across the North East are being urged to wrap up warm and head out at dusk, as starling murmuration 2026 season continues.

Yorkshire's murmurations are a "world-class phenomenon on our doorsteps", one enthusiast says.

In late May 2025, a video (archived) circulated online purportedly showing a starling murmuration — a spectacle where starlings gather in the thousands at dusk and collectively fly in shape-shifting ...

The starling murmurations around Gosforth are thought to be some of the biggest in the North East ...

A shape-shifting flock of thousands of starlings, called a murmuration, is amazing to see. As many as 750,000 birds join together in flight. The birds spread out and come together. The flock splits ...

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They are always in big gangs, always flying as one, like giant airships crossing the city. Starling murmuration isn’t just one spectacle for an hour or so each afternoon; it’s a whole process, a way ...

The post featuring the footage, which had more than 147,000 views at the time of this writing, claimed the display took place on May 27. The video did not carry any visible signs (such as a watermark ...