Starlings in the skies about the Victor Emmanuel II National Monument in Rome.

Gazing at the ‘Black Sun’: The Transfixing Beauty of Starling Murmurations

April 10, 2022

Photographs and Text by Søren Solkær Each spring and autumn, the skies in southern Denmark come to life with the swirling displays of hundreds of thousands of starlings, an event known locally as “sort sol.” It was a late February evening in 2020, and I was standing in the marshlands of Friesland, a northern province…
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