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Imagine the sky above you suddenly starts to «breathe»: it contracts into a dense black ball, stretches into a ribbon, then dissolves into a translucent veil against the sunset. This isn’t computer graphics—it’s murmuration, one of the most mesmerizing natural phenomena on the planet. Here’s what lies behind this magical dance, why birds gather into a «living cloud,» and how to catch this spectacular show in Belarus.

It takes a village to raise a child, and at Türkiye’s Lake Tuz, that village is made up of thousands of flamingos.