A beautiful sight

[LFCJohnSmith]

Here they are in an even bigger swarm, some swarms can have 1000000 + in them

YouTube - carling birds - belong

 

[LFCJohnSmith]

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.

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.

The starlings only do it here when they are about to roost for the night, for the rest of the day they are solitary birds.

 

[joelm3103]

That vid is awesome , looks pretty neat. Now I wish I was a bird .

 

[Mr. Switch]

Darn, that's just sad .

no, that's not sad.

look them up, they're destructive pieces of poop.

 

[joelm3103]

no, that's not sad.

look them up, they're destructive pieces of poop.

But they're still birdies , and that flying thing is awesome lol.

That's like saying people dying isn't sad...because they're destructive pieces of poop.

 

[kmote]

no, that's not sad.

look them up, they're destructive pieces of poop.

Strongly Disagree.

 

[Greg]

Dead starlings? Not so sad, since living starlings = dead native species.

 

[kmote]

Native to where? The world is a small place these days.

 

[Greg]

Oregon and the rest of the North America

Edit: Realized you were talking about dead Starlings in Europe. Maybe a little sad, but still. It's not like they're at risk of becoming endangered

 

[Yami]

"How do you know so much about starlings?"