Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Air Show

The New York Times website offers a beguiling multimedia feature on the enigmatic patterns formed by huge flocks of starlings that gather in the skies above Rome during Autumn and Winter. The final photo in the selection suggests, to my eyes at least, a haunting sketch of a winged, humanlike figure descending.Bonus info: apparently, the collective noun for starlings is a “murmuration”.