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The Unintended Beauty of Starlings
- s_dev 7y agoCo-incidence, I was just watching this starling murmuration on reddit in Ireland: https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/ffm2l2/murmuration_over_nobber_meath/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/ffm2l2/murmuration...
- waynecochran 7y agoInteresting. I grew up understanding that Starlings are a pest species and are the one song bird that your are allowed to shoot — in fact you are encouraged to shoot on sight. They are the gang members of the songbird world since they are hostile to other birds and like to parasitically destroy other birds eggs and replace them with their own.
- _spduchamp 7y agoStarlings are amazing... They can be taught to speak words... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBaVInb3jI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhBaVInb3jI and check out Brian D Collier's art project Teach the Starlings http://teachstarlings.societyrne.net/html/intro.htm http://teachstarlings.societyrne.net/html/intro.htm Also, murmurations behave like magnets... "To achieve their extraordinary coordination, starling flocks in flight behave mathematically like metals becoming magnetized, researchers say." https://www.wired.com/2012/03/starling-flock-dynamics/ https://www.wired.com/2012/03/starling-flock-dynamics/