A flock of starlings and dancing in the sky

When starlings gather in the flock, they are similar to the liquid medium, which is spinning rapidly and change shape, creating bizarre shapes in the sky and moving like a living organism.
A flock of starlings and amazing dancing in the sky after the first day of spring. A flock of starlings near the town of Netivot, Israel January 25, 2013.





When thousands of starlings gather in flocks, they move as one big body, making fancy movement against the setting sun.



The beauty of their movements, coordinated by an invisible hand, is truly fascinating. This phenomenon is called "the dance of starlings" or "living clouds»





Starlings on power lines in Germany in 2011.



Clouds starlings are enormous. For example, these starlings migrate from northern Europe to Rome,
every year do a million birds.



Large flocks are extremely sensitive to any changes. From the side it seems that every flock of starlings moving the collective intelligence and truly behaves like a single organism, as the birds quickly change its direction, giving "cloud living" a new form.



Moving in this way in schools, starlings significantly reduce the chances of being caught on the fly birds of prey.



Starlings in tree in Rome, Italy, December 3, 2013.



With special shooting techniques, scientists have tracked the flight of a single bird and learn a little more about the supernatural, synchronous movements flocks of starlings.



It turns out that every bird in the flock sets the trajectory for the 7 individuals who are closest to it. This group, in turn, affects the flight of starlings has 49, and they ask the flight 343 birds. This explains how quickly the air there are thousands of different images simultaneously moving birds.



A large flock of starlings in Algiers, February 15 2006.



These birds really formations similar to a single living organism. Netivot, Israel, February 12, 2014.



A flock of starlings in a heart shape, February 12, 2014.



A large flock of starlings near the town of Bacau, Romania, December 10, 2013



Starling - a master to learn from other people's voices, and all the sounds he hears. The repertoire of sounds borrowed is very diverse: some males imitate the voices of 12 species of birds and mimic their various voice response.



Huge flocks of birds have its drawbacks, especially for cities. So look after the cars 'bombardment' starlings. Rome, 8 November 2012.



The clouds of starlings near the town of Bacau, Romania 10 December 2013.



Two living organism consisting of migrating starlings. Israel, February 11, 2014



Israel, February 12, 2014.



A living organism near the town of Netivot, Israel, 24 January 2013.



Migratory flocks of birds in Scotland, 4 November 2011.



Starlings in search of food and warmth flew to the cows in the corral, Nebraska 18 January 2007.



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