For your viewing pleasure - this may be one of the most beautiful things you'll watch today. Murmuration, or the shape-shifting of flocks of starlings, takes place each fall as these birds migrate from Russia and Scandanavia. This video, from Sophie Windsor Clive, captures millions of starlings as they're swirling about the River Shannon in Ireland.

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