Amazing Starling Murmurations
Birds flying in formation is so awesome. They provided me endless entertainment while staring out the window of my high school. How about when they line up on a wire all Hitchcockian-like and then take off all at once like they've just received a kill mission from CONTROL. Birds are graceful and beautiful, and despite their wee brains, they’re pretty smart too. Basically, migrating birds fly in a “V” shaped pattern in order to fly long distances with less air resistance or “drag” and therefore, fly more efficiently. It's all so boss.
As for the common starling, who exhibit one of the most impressive flying behaviors by far, this British guy seems to have a pretty good handle on it:
Isn’t that amazing? It’s like watching movie grade special effects except the sky is the screen and it’s starring nature. Nature’s a bit of a BFD, huh?
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#2It's so much more magical in real life. And I haven't seen it on the scale it happens at Otmoor. -
#3It's so much more magical in real life. And I haven't seen it on the scale it happens at Otmoor.
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#4Are those real pictures of birds? -
#5Is there anything more amazing than nature? I think not... -
#6This is an example of invasive species. We see this on a daily basis where I am from. An "enlightened" Englishman decided to bring non-native birds to North America in the 1800's (I believe) because we should have all the birds that England does. English Starlings have few or no natural predators in North America, are destroying the habitat of native species and competing for resources. The behavior noted in these pictures is to confuse any possible predator and is the same principle of stripes on a pack of zebras running across the plains of africa. High contrast images moving erratically making it difficult for predators to cut a single victim from the heard/flock.
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