As dusk falls, these remarkable birds gather into mesmerizing flocks, known as murmurations.
Cooper captures stunning images of the starlings near her home in the north of England.
Occasionally, the birds arrive in small groups, using their songs to draw in larger flocks.
I cannot help feeling filled with wonder when witnessing hundreds of thousands of individuals moving with such cohesion.
The birds neither collide nor disperse, effortlessly avoiding obstacles and evading predators.
Cooper adds, Not only are they visually breathtaking, but they engulf the other senses.
Shes fascinated by the complex patterns created through the birds seemingly organized interactions.
Cooper uses a 19th-century photographic technique called chronophotography to capture how the birds fly in unison.
Cooper explains, The images are overlaid onto the same print to reveal motion and behaviour otherwise hidden.
Some are composed from hundreds of consecutive exposures and others, just a handful.
Cooper uses a 19th-century photographic technique called chronophotography to capture how the birds fly in unison.
She combines multiple successive exposures to capture the birds' complex movements in one image.
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