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Roeselienraimond.com | Blog | Facebook | PRINT A flock of starlings swarming together around sunset in what is called a 'murmuration'.... an incredibly impressive phenomenon that until this isn't understood by scientistsRelated content
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It's incredible but it also reminds some of us of a swarm of locusts especially where they are invasive.
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Wow, that's really beautiful and amazing. It must have been very loud.
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The thumbnail made this look like the sky was full of glitter, or confetti 
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I have seen quite a few of these. They are always very bewitching to watch.
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Do we always need to understand everything. Where would the magic go? Awesome shot. I have been in the midst of this phenomenon and it is bewildering to say the least.
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The spirit of Georges-Pierre Seurat lives on, in a murmuration of starlings.
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I've always wanted to witness this. But pictures like this will have to satisfy my curiosity.
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Wow. Pretty amazing. I couldn't figure out what was going on in the thumb.
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I've seen murmurations, never one on this massive scale.
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The way they are swirling it looks like the Eye of God
Amazing shot
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When I had a house by the water this used to happen all the time right above my head. It is an awesome display in coordination in flight. In Denmark we call this phenomenon Black Sun, as the dense cloud of birds can almost block out the suns orb making it black. Some people travel far to try to experience this, as it is quite a show. 
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Amazing! I love watching murmurations. Thanks for sharing.
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it's got to do with something in the air.
eugene
really it's a collective mind effect, like a hive of bees.
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These incredible displays are one of the things that lead Rupert Sheldrake to propose the concept of "Morphogenetic Fields"; where groups of individuals can tap into a type of resonating neural-net "groupthink", letting them to act as single unit & perform these synchronized avian aerobatics.
It's an almost magical experience & I've had the pleasure of similar sights. The last time was years ago my wife & I witnessed a late night feeding by a huge flock of Common Nighthawks. We watched in awe as they swept back & forth chasing bugs that in a responding panic seemed to rise from the surrounding fields in their own tightly packed clouds - only to disappear within an immense dark tornado of hungry Nighthawk mouths.
Despite the darkness, their speed & the vast numbers of birds in the air, there wasn't a single collision.
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Yes but that theorem applies to lemmings also.
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Yes and no.
I don't mean to burst any bubbles, but Lemmings don't really jump off cliffs trying or try to drown themselves en mass.
Lemmings breed profusely and if the conditions in a specific area allow, the population can increase by a factor of 10 within a single year!
High population densities often lead to fights with each other, which will trigger a migration exodus.
Yes, they will swim across streams and like other tundra animals like Caribou, they can be overcome by sudden flooding and drown in large numbers.
This was the basis for the urban myth that "lemmings commit mass suicide".
Unfortunately that idea ballooned to epic proportions thanks to Disney & their 1958 film "White Wilderness".
(All the footage of the massed lemmings used in that movie were "arranged".)
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Just trying to be cute. I agree with you on the population density having an adverse reaction to the heard/pack mentality. There was a scientist/ biologist? who did the study on Asian black rats and their population explosion every 48-49 years occurring with the flowering of the bamboo, and that was his theory on the spread of the plague cycle. Sorry I cannot remember his name?
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