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Some remarkable pictures of that wonderful word `murmuration' - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rmurations

Clitheroekid wrote:Some remarkable pictures of that wonderful word `murmuration' - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rmurations

Truly stunning. I never realised that starlings actually follow each other in what are, in effect, long strings. I thought they were all acting independently within the flock.

--kiloran

Wow, fantastic.

Oddly enough here in rural Gloucs we have no starlings. Not one.

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kiloran wrote:

Clitheroekid wrote:Some remarkable pictures of that wonderful word `murmuration' - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rmurations

Truly stunning. I never realised that starlings actually follow each other in what are, in effect, long strings. I thought they were all acting independently within the flock.

--kiloran

I believe what you are seeing as "long strings" is actually the same bird time-lapse photo'd many times as it flies.

Clitheroekid wrote:Some remarkable pictures of that wonderful word `murmuration' - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rmurations

And a physicist's brief explanation https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what- ... ics-nobel/
"The man who looked at birds and grasped the secrets of the universe"

mc2fool wrote:

kiloran wrote:Truly stunning. I never realised that starlings actually follow each other in what are, in effect, long strings. I thought they were all acting independently within the flock.

--kiloran

I believe what you are seeing as "long strings" is actually the same bird time-lapse photo'd many times as it flies.

Doh! I just looked at the photos, and didn't read the text.

--kiloran

One of my favourite murmuration videos, nice music too.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k