murmurate

Verb

murmurate (third-person singular simple present murmurates, present participle murmurating, simple past and past participle murmurated)

1. (intransitive) Of starlings, to gather in large flocks at dusk.
   • By dusk this murmurating cloud can number thousands or even millions of birds.2009, Daniel Butler, The mathematics of murmurating starlings, The Telegraph
   • There's a glister of goldfinches, an exaltation of larks, a swoop of swallows, a chain of bobolinks, a scold of blue jays, a murmuration of starlings, which are at their best when they murmurate by the hundreds across a gray sky.2013, Ruth Bass, Word playing gives birds new nicknames, The Berkshire Eagle