What Are These Birds Doing in This Hypnotizing Video?

[glondor]

any idea what this is?

Found this on stumble upon. Hope the link works. If anyone knows what this is...

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=806lnnegr8

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It's a flock of birds.

 

[yenchin]

Indeed...

Flocking behavior is very interesting mathematically, see for example, http://plus.maths.org/issue42/features/dartnell/index.html" .

 

[hypatia]

It was very beautiful. I enjoyed that. I have seen several flocks this big, and bigger. It looks like they: A. found a food source or B. getting ready to roost for the night.

 

[glondor]

Amazing behavior, Thought it was birds. Was not sure tho.

 

[rocomath]

Wow that was definitely interesting. I have never seen birds flock like that before.

 

[matthyaouw]

Starlings, I'd guess


The blobby thing is something stuck on the windscreen of the car it was filmed from.

 

[russ_watters]

I've seen this too, but never such a huge flock and never just kinda randomly flying around. Amazing.

 

[DaveC426913]

We get hundreds of starlings at a time, but never anything like this!

My sister used to do fieldwork, estimating flock sizes like this. I'll ask her how many in that flock.

 

[Contrapositive]

Birds. You can clearly see bird **** land on the camera at 0:12.

 

[PlasmaSphere]

definitely starlings, i used to see them all the time when i was driving to work. They flock together in a particular way, different to most other birds, and the shapes they make can be really beautiful. Almost hypnotising at times.