Note: Only Ryanair dares fly through a 'starling murmuration', as they are known:
silverstrata, that statement is a distortion of the facts.
The crew observed a murmuration on short final and elected to GoAround (follow Boeing and Company SOPs at the time) - during this maneuver the aircraft sustained multiple bird strikes and the engines suffered major loss of thrust and the GoAround was abandoned for a crash landing on the runway.