Pretty cool video on a murmuration

[A Cyrenian]

My wife sent me this link to watch. I don't care for starlings but they are fun to watch.

Starling gathering in England

[ClearCase_guy]

Very nice. Even better than an Exaltation of Larks or a Parliament of Owls.

[ruesrose]

Or a murder of crows

[dennisw]

A fleet of mudhens
A watch of nightingales (match, pray)
A pride of ostriches (flock)
A parliament of owls (stare)
A fling of oxbirds
A company of parrots (flock, pandemonium, psittacosis)
A covey of partridges (bevy, bew, clutch, warren)
A muster of peacocks (ostentation, pride)
A pod of pelicans (scoop)
A colony of penguins (parcel, rookery)
A cadge of peregrines
A nye of pheasants (bouquet, head, nide, warren, )
A flight of pigeons (flock, kit, passel, )
A knob of pintails [small number]
A congregation of plovers (band, flight, leash, stand, wing)
A rush of pochards (flight, knob[small number])
A run of poultry
A covey of ptarmigans
A bevy of quails (covey, drift)
An unkindness of ravens (aerie, conspiracy)
A crowd of redwings
A parliament of rooks (building, clamour, congregation, shoal, wing)
A hill of ruffs
A fling of sandpipers
A cloud of seafowls
A squabble of seagulls
A dopping of sheldrakes (doading)
A walk of snipes (wisp)
A host of sparrows (meinie, quarrel, tribe, ubiquity)
A murmuration of starlings (chattering, cloud, congregation, clutter)
A mustering of storks (flight, phalanx)
A flight of swallows (gulp)
A herd of swans (bank, bevy, drift, eyrar, game, herd, lamentation, sownder, squadron, team, wedge, whiteness, whiting)
A flock of swifts
A spring of teals (bunch, coil, knob, raft)
A mutation of thrushes
A flock of turkeys (dole, dule, raffle, raft, rafter, posse)
A pitying of turtledoves
A colony of vultures (committee, wake)
A plump of waterfowls (bunch, knob, raft)
A company of widgeons (bunch, coil, flight, knob, trip)
A trip of wildfowls (bunch, knob, lute, plump,scry, skein, sord, sute)
A fall of woodcocks (covey, flight, plump)
A descent of woodpeckers
A herd of wrens (flock)

[mark3681]

you missed one:

A pack of cigarettes

[Conservative4Ever]

Beautiful and amazing.

[Fresh Wind]

If they make such a wonderful sound, why did the maker of the video cover it over with new-age type music?

Very cool to watch, though, as long as you aren’t directly underneath the flock.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Pretty amazing, though I question the claim that it’s absolutely unique; it’s very much like a school of fish. On a larger fractal scale, there must be some analogous process relating to how geese fly in such well-formed “V” formations.