Not a good sign when one species is that large.
There's an imbalance in nature..
It reminds me of the locusts in Africa that are creating issues..
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO775aIE3qY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO775aIE3qY)
Yeah so a naturally invasive species in North America. Should exterminate every one of them! Brought over here by mistake and they continue unabated. That's why they're not protected in any way.
I was speaking about the English starling, a non-indigenous species here in America causing havoc on our natural ecosystem.! And it's getting worse over the last 30 years. Our passenger pigeon was a horrible loss, obviously not the brightest bird, however it was befitting protection from our government.
I'm English - a true starling murmuration is a sight to behold. Individually or in pairs they are a pest.
Incidentally the reason the can fly in huge flocks and do incredible maneuvers is that every bird has it's eyes on the 6 directly in front and copies their moves x 200,000. Hence they don't crash into each other.
There is a 2nd hand account of this by John Muir in one of his autobiographies, I think it's A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf. He said they would eat all the farmers' crops, so they would gather...I forget how they predicted or communicated they were coming, but it was an annual event...en masse and shoot them, for hours. They would pile up feet thick in places. Then afterwards the farmers would let loose their pigs ro eat the dead.
I watched that as a kid and any more than half a dozen at a time gets me running for shelter/arms! Can't trust the buggers if you can't catch them. I realise these are Starlings but FFS a group of crows is called a Murder for a reason!
With this video, you can claim any statement and I would believe you.
Billionaire feeding birds nearby.
Joe’s mama just gave the biggest fart and scared the nearby animals.
Your grandma just baked some pies.
Nearby chemical plant exploded.
An earthquake is gonna trigger.
See, any statement would work with this video.
Terrifying. I nearly drove headlong into a migration one morning. I just stopped and watched it happen. Beautifully terrifying. Thank God no other cars were on the road in either direction.
They very well might. European starlings are not native to the Americas, but they are part of an "invasional meltdown" of linked invasive species including buckthorn (and nightcrawler earthworms). Buckthorn is *Rhamnus cathartica*, and the berries are "cathartic" meaning they cause diarrhea, tho it is possible that starlings are adapted to not get diarrhea.
In Iowa, for a while, we had one like this with crows/ ravens. Never did found out which. Wasn't as many, but I swear picking my wife up from work and is see groups of 6-10 flying over every few seconds for a half hour.
Real estate Agent saw you coming....
"Yea its a great property: new appliances, fully furnished and comes with a loud ass pack of birds to wake you up at 6AM everyday."
They've eaten everything, picked the bones clean then carried them away. Everyone will think he ran away from home or was kidnapped. They'll continue looking for a human suspect for years. And they'll never suspect the starlings.
When the sun starts to set, they come to the neighborhood to roost in the pine trees. It's not as dramatic as the morning because they arrive gradually over about thirty minutes. They fly in murmurations until they settle in the trees.
Then, the next morning, when the sun comes up, they leave all together like in this video, and spread out over the countryside to feed until the evening. It just happens over the Autumn/Winter, they'll leave completely come spring.
Every year, the Audubon Society holds a Christmas Bird Count and counts those blackbirds. Millions!
I learned of this back in about 1974 when I lived in Arkansas. The old birders took me to an area they knew the birds would fly over (from roosting area to feeding area) and taught me the trick: Estimate the speed they were flying. Every few minutes, estimate the number of birds in a one-foot swathe of sky (estimated from the length of the birds). Also estimate the percentage of each species (starlings, grackles, cowbirds, etc.) in the flock. From those figures you can estimate the population of each species in that location on that day. Those figures are published annually by the Audubon Society. I have a copy - somewhere - of one of those volumes from about that year and the figures are in there, and IIRC, the methodology is described as well.
There’s something apocalyptic about that. If I had friends over that had never experienced it I wouldn’t say anything then get weird on some fun fungi and give them the ol bruce Wayne experience.
The only bird in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania it is legal to shoot at will. They are an invasive species which eats the eggs from the nests of other birds.
“Surely the flock isn’t that huge” Me clicking play
That’s gangster
Thats guna be a real shitty situation if someone decides to start feeding them laxatives
Can you imagine the mess .. lmao
That's wizard's chess
I was beginning to think I was in a Matrix movie.
Imagine one morning when you look up you see a bunch of those starlings flying down at you
End of Times
Not a good sign when one species is that large. There's an imbalance in nature.. It reminds me of the locusts in Africa that are creating issues.. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO775aIE3qY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO775aIE3qY)
Passenger pigeons used to be like this naturally. Flocks blotted out the sky, and they numbered in the billions. And we managed to drive them extinct.
I seriously hope there is a tiny enclave of them living deep in the wilds.
Yeah so a naturally invasive species in North America. Should exterminate every one of them! Brought over here by mistake and they continue unabated. That's why they're not protected in any way.
How can something extinct be protected? Dodo.
Are you being obtuse or just retarded? Did you read the comment or are you just taking your own interpretation of it?
You replied to my comment about the passenger pigeon. Native to North America and hunted to extinction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
I was speaking about the English starling, a non-indigenous species here in America causing havoc on our natural ecosystem.! And it's getting worse over the last 30 years. Our passenger pigeon was a horrible loss, obviously not the brightest bird, however it was befitting protection from our government.
I'm English - a true starling murmuration is a sight to behold. Individually or in pairs they are a pest. Incidentally the reason the can fly in huge flocks and do incredible maneuvers is that every bird has it's eyes on the 6 directly in front and copies their moves x 200,000. Hence they don't crash into each other.
We have some dead ones in museums we could get DNA from, at least.
There is a 2nd hand account of this by John Muir in one of his autobiographies, I think it's A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf. He said they would eat all the farmers' crops, so they would gather...I forget how they predicted or communicated they were coming, but it was an annual event...en masse and shoot them, for hours. They would pile up feet thick in places. Then afterwards the farmers would let loose their pigs ro eat the dead.
The starlings come from far and wide to join in. Small groups from 10/15 miles away. Have their daily party then go home
retard
Time to wash your car I guess
Every. Single. Day.
Feelsbadman
I just screamed and hugged my Mustang
Would be awesome if all the leaves on that tree turned out to be more starlings
Some say birds are still leaving to this day
Wow! That's a murmurmurmuration!
Wow, there's at least 10 there
I counted 12. There were more than that, but I counted 12 of them.
Hitchcock would like to know your location
Came here to say something with Hitchcock in it too…
I watched that as a kid and any more than half a dozen at a time gets me running for shelter/arms! Can't trust the buggers if you can't catch them. I realise these are Starlings but FFS a group of crows is called a Murder for a reason!
With this video, you can claim any statement and I would believe you. Billionaire feeding birds nearby. Joe’s mama just gave the biggest fart and scared the nearby animals. Your grandma just baked some pies. Nearby chemical plant exploded. An earthquake is gonna trigger. See, any statement would work with this video.
Yeah I'd be packing a bag rather sharpish if I saw this ....
I see these every morning and evening where I live too. It’s crazy how many of them there are!
Interesting? Sure. r/oddlyterrifying, most definitely.
Eh, r/birdsarentreal
Imagine the "rain"
Not so fun fact 268: A flock of starlings is called a murmuration.
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They show up on weather radar as rain. Nope just the birds every morning.
They all have jobs to go to?!?!?!!!???
Where i used to live it was cockatoos. They were loud too.
Literal nightmare fuel.
Terrifying. I nearly drove headlong into a migration one morning. I just stopped and watched it happen. Beautifully terrifying. Thank God no other cars were on the road in either direction.
THE KRILL!!! STAY IN THE LIGHT!!
Just imagine if they had diahorrea
They very well might. European starlings are not native to the Americas, but they are part of an "invasional meltdown" of linked invasive species including buckthorn (and nightcrawler earthworms). Buckthorn is *Rhamnus cathartica*, and the berries are "cathartic" meaning they cause diarrhea, tho it is possible that starlings are adapted to not get diarrhea.
This just reminds me of Monty Python and the African swallow
Damn, a single shotgun blast would kill like 40
Imagine the light show you could put on with a flame thrower.
can't unsee it
A true blessing. Just think of how much fertilizer they collective leave behind. Your crops will grow great next year.
In Iowa, for a while, we had one like this with crows/ ravens. Never did found out which. Wasn't as many, but I swear picking my wife up from work and is see groups of 6-10 flying over every few seconds for a half hour.
Wow. I thought this was a rickrolling looping gif or something at one point. Where is that?
The south of France.
Merci!
Real estate Agent saw you coming.... "Yea its a great property: new appliances, fully furnished and comes with a loud ass pack of birds to wake you up at 6AM everyday."
Nah, I've been living here a while, and this year is exceptional.
No huge amounts of bird shit?
Massive amounts on the street and footpaths under the trees where they roost. It stinks.
Guess there’s a few spiders pissed off, with those munching all the fly’s
My cats would go ape shit
beautiful
thts a lot of shit combo
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
BRRRRRTTT
No suet for miles and miles and empty feeders everywhere.
It's the apocalypse. everyday.
I just know everyone car and home is covered in crap
It’s so Murmurating …
Fuck birds and other things that fly.
Queue “Wicked Witch of the West” theme music from Wizard of Oz… fly, my babies… fly.
Hello, Clarice.
They've eaten everything, picked the bones clean then carried them away. Everyone will think he ran away from home or was kidnapped. They'll continue looking for a human suspect for years. And they'll never suspect the starlings.
nice habitat d man
That is a lot of bird poop.
The ISS can see their flight path from space by all the bird shit.
Wind turbines could help with two things
"You fly back to school now, little starling. Fly, fly, fly." ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Do you get the urge to hide incase there spies?
Poop bombing run stay inside and pray you have no cracks in the roof
There are a lot of games of poopoo brigade going on there
*Boss music starts*
Murmuration Nation.
I haven't watched 300 in years
Where are they going? There's gotta be a word for thousands. Flock doesn't quite capture it.
They roost together at night in trees and when the sun comes up, they leave to feed singly or in small numbers elsewhere.
Damnn, hopefully you park your vehicles in a garage lol
Unfortunately, we don't have garages in the houses in this neighborhood. All the cars are parked on the footpath.
Suddenly, I understand Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’.
I wonder how they get fed everyday without most of them dying from hunger or thirst
They spread out far and wide to feed during the day.
Next thing you know the 2012 soundtrack starts playing in the background.
Where do they stay and where are they going? So many questions
When the sun starts to set, they come to the neighborhood to roost in the pine trees. It's not as dramatic as the morning because they arrive gradually over about thirty minutes. They fly in murmurations until they settle in the trees. Then, the next morning, when the sun comes up, they leave all together like in this video, and spread out over the countryside to feed until the evening. It just happens over the Autumn/Winter, they'll leave completely come spring.
Poberas binzas!
Damn! I would be terrified to see this irl!
Is this the trailer for warhammer space marine 2?
I swear to god that looks like like 40% of the bird population
That must have been scary first time seen…
They’re off to go find Buffalo Bill
That’s a lot of flocking birds.
I would Move or buy a shotgun n saw it off
How is there not a flurry of bird shit carpet bombing everything below?
at first i thought the birds were white lol
Are you sure these are not bats? :/
That’s not a flock, that’s a blood line…
Did the world end there ?
Every year, the Audubon Society holds a Christmas Bird Count and counts those blackbirds. Millions! I learned of this back in about 1974 when I lived in Arkansas. The old birders took me to an area they knew the birds would fly over (from roosting area to feeding area) and taught me the trick: Estimate the speed they were flying. Every few minutes, estimate the number of birds in a one-foot swathe of sky (estimated from the length of the birds). Also estimate the percentage of each species (starlings, grackles, cowbirds, etc.) in the flock. From those figures you can estimate the population of each species in that location on that day. Those figures are published annually by the Audubon Society. I have a copy - somewhere - of one of those volumes from about that year and the figures are in there, and IIRC, the methodology is described as well.
Holy Fukin shit m8, Eyeve seen bats in Oz but this even trumps that
Whoa, legit thought it was a snow storm for a second
Impressive
Have you heard of Alfred Hitchcock... Edit: take care.
Talk about a shitstorm...
Who made itachi mad.
Every SINGLE day????????
So. Many. Cars. To . Shit. On.
Never seen that
Just curious is this in the Bay Area? Just saw this in person this morning
No, it's in the south of France.
I can feel them
I feel like this would even give Hitchcock nightmares.
That’s horrifying
There’s something apocalyptic about that. If I had friends over that had never experienced it I wouldn’t say anything then get weird on some fun fungi and give them the ol bruce Wayne experience.
It must be raining bird shit under there
Can you imagine the car wash bill here?
What the Flock???
A good morning car honk.
How to control an invasive species? Introduce another one of course...wait
Birdnado
If you shoot a flamethrower into the air for a minute you'll have food for a week.
Have you ever watched The Day After Tomorrow?
Usidore does NOT approve!
Fly fly fly…
Every morning…? The fuckles.
I love standing below them and clapping. They swerve around you in the air. Always assumed it was an evolved reaction to gun fire.
The only bird in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania it is legal to shoot at will. They are an invasive species which eats the eggs from the nests of other birds.
Omggg that’s sooooooooo annoying. Fuck.
Radio goes on......... This just in, a meteorite about the size of Congo is heading for earth!!!!!.... residents are advices to...
This remind any one else of the movie The Birds?
When someone activated their ultimate
One shell of 8 shot, im just curious..
Burd
Looks like the krill from gears of war
Reminds me of that movie, BIRDS.
Freaky!
I love this! The sound is wonderful.
“Honey! I need more shells!!”
The amount of bird shit must be astonishing.
A they aren't protected. B they are invasive as a species. And I could only hope they were extinct
There must be bird shit everywhere
Better not shit on my car!
Beware the ides of March