It took me several days to scout out the location where the starlings gather at sunset to roost ... murmuration took on the shape of a large flying bird - no retouches necessary!

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The majority of those birds fly at night and typically start their migration about 30 to 45 minutes post-sunset, with peak flights between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. While the dark skies allow migratory ...

where they migrate and how far they will be flying. BirdCast's bird migration forecast map shows predicted nocturnal migration three hours after local sunset and are updated every six hours.

Most of us probably aren’t looking up at the sky when these birds sail through, since peak flight time is usually two to four hours after sunset. But local wildlife ... since birds can mistake them ...

In other cases, birds are stunned by the collision and eventually fly off, but many of those individuals also eventually perish from brain swelling. Other injuries, to wings or legs, for example ...