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American white pelicans, brown pelicans, black skimmers and other shorebirds often fly together in a single, line formation, especially while the birds hunt for food.

Flying in a V makes it easier to track every bird that is in the group, and may help with communication with other birds. Geese are not the only birds that fly in this formation.

The trailing flock reportedly took 14 hours to pass a single point. If that’s true, it would consist of approximately 3.5 billion birds and could be considered the largest flock of birds ever seen.

In March 2024, Snopes received reader mail asking about a story claiming a pilot reacted emotionally after realizing why a flock of birds was flying next to his airplane. The article's headline ...

CLOUDS OF BIRDS: Starlings were spotted flying in a swirling formation in Turkey on Tuesday (1/9). The phenomenon is known as a murmuration and usually happens around sunset.

Then last summer, a flock of the rare and beautiful birds — a group is fittingly known as a “flamboyance” of flamingos — was blown to Florida on the fierce winds of Hurricane Idalia.

Every fall, these little birds make a big trip. They fly from their summer breeding grounds in the Pacific Northwest down to their winter home in Central and South America.