Aberystwyth Wales UK, Monday 21 March 2016 UK weather: Flocks of thousands of tiny starlings fly in huge spectacular ‘murmurations’ over Aberystwyth pier on a cold and overecast March evening. The displays are becoming more impressive as the birds approach the time when they will leave for their summer breeding grounds in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe Credit: keith morris/Alamy Live News
Aberystwyth Wales UK, Monday 21 March 2016 UK weather: Flocks of thousands of tiny starlings fly in huge spectacular ‘murmurations’ over Aberystwyth pier on a cold and overecast March evening. The displays are becoming more impressive as the birds approach the time when they will leave for their summer breeding grounds in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe Known in Welsh as ‘adar yr eira’ or ‘snow birds’ they are on the RSPB’s endangered ‘red’ list, and roost every evening from October to March on the cast iron legs of the victorian-era pier, one of only a handful of urban roosts in the UK photo © Keith Morris
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