One of nature’s most wonderful phenomenons is the mesmerising aerial ballet that is the starling murmuration.Thousands and thousands of birds flock together and literally dance across the sky in a sublime, twisting and swirling collective - which moves like one single, shape-shifting cloud. It’s one of the world’s great mysteries: why they don’t bump into each other and knock each other out of the sky?
Thousands of starlings over Albert Bridge in Belfast
Derek Mooney visits two locations to look on in awe at this awesome sight. At Belfast's Albert Bridge, he's joined by Claire Barnett, Senior Conservation Officer with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Northern Ireland. And at Lough Ennell in Co Westmeath, he talks to Eugene Dunbar of BirdWatch Ireland's Westmeath branch as they take in this incredible spectacle.
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For more, go to the Mooney Goes Wild show on RTÉ Radio 1
