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An amazing sight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhNqso6VElE
Further info: http://audubonportland.org/local-birding/swiftwatch
Yes, such patterning of swifts can be fascinating. They are called murmurations. Here is another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY
Tobi is quite an expert on this, and if she sees this thread she has a link to an even more dramatic one, with beautiful music.
What...?
I heard my name called! LOL :D
You must mean this:
A video of 'Starling Murmurations' (that is when a large group of Starlings form the most wonderful shapes in flight.)
http://youtu.be/M1Q-EbX6dso
I hope you like this Enzo. Starling murmurations are quite common in the UK during the winter, though not often as good as this! The starlings group together in flight as a defence usually against a predator -such as a sparrowhawk.
The music is by Ludovico Einaudi.
Aerial ballet! How they don't collide, because they're moving at a fair pace ....
Though even a solo swift (swallow or house martin) is truly mesmerising.
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What wonderful videos! Thanks for sharing :)
I never knew what it was called. I've seen large groups of starlings here before but they are tiny compared to these! What a beautiful scene. I wish it was a common thing here. I could not imagine witnessing something like this in person. It would definitely take my breath away.
Yes we get visited by starlings every winter in the UK. They migrate from the Baltic or Scandinavia, and go back in the Spring. This is a common sight (though usually not as impressive as that!)
But I have never seen a murmuration of Swifts!
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