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Murmurations
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- Lemon Quarter
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Murmurations
Some remarkable pictures of that wonderful word `murmuration' - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rmurations
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- Lemon Quarter
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Clitheroekid wrote:Some remarkable pictures of that wonderful word `murmuration' - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rmurations
Truly stunning. I never realised that starlings actually follow each other in what are, in effect, long strings. I thought they were all acting independently within the flock.
--kiloran
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kiloran wrote:Clitheroekid wrote:Some remarkable pictures of that wonderful word `murmuration' - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rmurations
Truly stunning. I never realised that starlings actually follow each other in what are, in effect, long strings. I thought they were all acting independently within the flock.
--kiloran
I believe what you are seeing as "long strings" is actually the same bird time-lapse photo'd many times as it flies.
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Clitheroekid wrote:Some remarkable pictures of that wonderful word `murmuration' - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rmurations
And a physicist's brief explanation https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what- ... ics-nobel/
"The man who looked at birds and grasped the secrets of the universe"
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Re: Murmurations
mc2fool wrote:kiloran wrote:Truly stunning. I never realised that starlings actually follow each other in what are, in effect, long strings. I thought they were all acting independently within the flock.
--kiloran
I believe what you are seeing as "long strings" is actually the same bird time-lapse photo'd many times as it flies.
Doh! I just looked at the photos, and didn't read the text.
--kiloran
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Re: Murmurations
One of my favourite murmuration videos, nice music too.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k
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