Murmuration of Starlings

What a vision for sore eyes...a murmuration of starlings on Ireland's River Shannon:

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

The narrator on this next video offers a good education about starlings (near Oxford, England) followed by beautiful murmurations set to music. Want to learn even more? Click on the links at the bottom of this post.

 

In case you are wondering why starlings do this, click on the following links:
Wired Science
Audubon Magazine  
Northwestern.edu 

Comments

[Karey]

Unbelievable. I really enjoyed the first video shot in silence with no narration. It's chilling to see how the birds move as one in such complex, well, murmurations. I watched in awe.