A beautiful sight
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oh cool! neat to see that in person. I've got a thing for birds. Gave ya 5 stars.
joelm3103
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Bleh don't have any of that where I live...just plain ole pigeons flying around
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They do this because the air from the wake reduces the drag on the bird behind. So they don't have to use as much energy.a flying crap cloud
that's crazy though, much more interesting than the usual "V" formations i've seen around here.
With a big group of birds like in the video, there's the whole safety in numbers thing.
And to any predators, it might appear as if it's a much bigger animal
Yeah, they're noisy bloody things.
If you ever get any galahs as pets, you should name them after politicians.
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exactly, the starlings we have here in Oregon at horrible. you see one, you kill it. They were introduced in the US by some Shakespeare-obsessed duschebag who wanted to bring all of the birds in Shakespeare's work into the U.S.
sonofa***** screwed alot of things up..
It's like when Australia brought in the cane toads, screwed alot of sh*t up there too.
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That is called a murmuration, they orient themselves relative to the nearest 7 birds around them. Interestingly, I read in the paper today that a load of starlings were found dead in Somerset; 100 corpses in a 12' front garden and nobody knows why yet.
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Darn, that's just sad
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^lol, anyone watched the show flashforward? (not an off topic post if you get it)
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