TIL Meaning of murmuration in English a large group of birds, usually starlings, that all fly together and change direction together, or the act of birds doing this : Starling murmurations are one of the most dazzling displays in the natural world. a murmuration of starlings. Fewer examples

2024年1月16日 · Hello, I’ve tolerated the starlings that flock to my property each winter (about 40) for two years. This morning I watched them kill a red bellied woodpecker at one of my bird feeders.

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2018年8月30日 · TIL When a flock of starlings are murmurating (flying in those shape-shifting patterns) Each individual birds' movements are copied by 7 of its closest neighbours, and each of those neighbours' movements affect 7 more and so on through the flock.

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2023年6月29日 · I've had a starling as a pet, for nine years. It was an awesomely wonderful, delightful, loving experience. So there's that. But more importantly, once a wild bird has habituated to humans, they simply cannot be successfully released. In addition, starlings are dedicated flock birds. They are literally terrified without their flock.

2014年7月26日 · Lots of bird watchers with their telephoto lenses and binoculars too. I wouldn't know a Martin from a grackle if it bit me on the face but these guys seemed certain. Also for the amount of birds, they were quieter and more friendly than your average grackle/starling flock.

2022年11月13日 · She was the love of my life. I, our cat, and our lovebird were her "flock." She followed us everywhere. Sadly, she died tragically when not given care by an emergency vet clinic when she was having active seizures (I suspect they deprioritized her because she was a starling, even though she was now a pet).

2022年2月1日 · There's a European Starling flock assembly call that sounds a lot like this. I'll poke around xeno-canto and see if I can find a match, but I've come across a ton of them in the recordings I've been annotating for work in the past year.