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- kasket, on 11/09/2009, -0/+23In this video: 300,000 birds forget which direction to fly. All at the same exact time...
- JohnnieNamibia, on 11/09/2009, -5/+19A better, stranger, flock video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk - vosik, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10Now i know where lost creators got their inspiration for black cloud monster
- SpamHat, on 11/09/2009, -0/+10Looks like a swarm of bees.
- directedition, on 11/09/2009, -0/+9"I'm just following the guy in front of me."
- Nodaki, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6I have seen this first hand as well. The coordination of the birds and the pulsation of the "cloud" they form is amazing.
- clippclop, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6Simple solution:
Have a helicopter fly around with a large pane of glass hanging down. These birds can fly around in a swarm of 30,000. What will they all do when their natural enemy comes into the mix though? - carbbomb, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Well "Flock of Seagulls" is going to be stuck in my head all day now.
- skinsgamer, on 11/09/2009, -5/+10Wait so someone paused it and counted 300,000 birds?
- joejitsu, on 11/09/2009, -1/+5I hope fundamentalism fails, but never underestimate the power of ignorance.
- obrien317, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4There are mathematicians that use 'swarm theory' to create identical shapes. It's the birds spacing rules. They keep a certain distance from the surrounding bird's wings, but not too far, and then when there's a stimulus or predator it will echo throughout the entire group. It's like herd movements on the ground. Strength in numbers.
- abizzy, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4Before modern civilization came in, well essentially guns, there were flocks of millions of various types of birds, completely blocking out the sky, even here in America. What is now considered weird, was once very natural. Watch with awe while they are still some birds left.
- cJw314, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3No doubt; the first thing I thought was that it looked like an inter-dimensional creature... wait the island is just a dream Hurley's having?
- slashdotordigg, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3what if, by accident, a passerby plane drops a ton of Wong's terriyaki sauce and there is a massive natural gas explosion beneath?
mmmmmmm..... - T3hJ3hu, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3I saw one just like this a week ago, and I couldn't agree more. I was in complete awe, which was a terrible thing considering that I was supposed to be keeping my eyes on the road. Birds' ability to stay together and move so fluidly is truly a wonder.
I can't wait until we can make our air fleets do the same thing. - stevenr21, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2birds of a feather flock together
- Awwzm, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Talk about a *****. I cannot imagine what 300,000 birds worth of ***** looks like. Not good, I assume.
- PowderedToasty, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2We always hear that birds in a flock don't bump into each other, but do they also avoid bumping into their swarm mates falling poo?
- affcustdetail, on 11/09/2009, -2/+4These birds are a real pest in the united states. I saw some special on tv that said they don't know how to control them and the populations are exploding.
- noonch, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2This song was a whole lot better before I saw this video and (more specifically) the lead singer.
- Greengoo, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Flamethrowers.
- Greengoo, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2I ran....I ran so far away... I just ran.... I ran all night and day...
- Modiga, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2They said Starlings, not Stalins.
- huggkruka, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2The video doesn't capture the sound, which is a shame. I've seen this while waiting for a ferry in Denmark, and it was way fewer birds, and it was really eerie.
- evildemonic, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2The visual your comment gave me made me spit coffee on my keyboard...thanks!
- jmb93, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1I wouldn't want to be underneath of all of them.
- Someb0dy, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Nice, as long as they don't come anywhere near my car.
- bl00d, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Reminds me of fish shawls. It's really the same basic principle, every bird reacts to the movement of its neighbor in the sky. Therefore creating a fluid like movement. *shrug* it isn't the first time this kind of behavior has been recorded in nature. Strength in numbers and safety in the herd/flock.
- RedSaint, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1I was barely able to hear and understand what they were saying, but it was pretty funny when I heard how the "jyde" explained to them why they flew in formation, and the "copenhagen'er" said "you can't really explain it.."
- Mankrik, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Dont worry guys, photoshop expert here
the pixels tell me its fake. - Iceman21, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1Looks like locusts to me.
- rugabug, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Looks like the smoke monster from lost.
- AlyxVance, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1flocks of birds act just like schools of fish. They move like one body.
It creeps the hell out of me sometimes. For some reason it's a lot more weird when birds do it. - shortmilton, on 11/09/2009, -1/+1you can blow a big ''hole'' in a swarm like that with a shotgun.
- aasukisuki, on 11/09/2009, -2/+1Beads?!
- stpaulmatt, on 11/09/2009, -3/+1Pffft, any ornithologist worth their salt knows that this is closer to 180,000 starlings.
- verynegative, on 11/09/2009, -5/+2How do they know it's 300.000?
- VinceIP, on 11/09/2009, -5/+1That's a lot of god damned birds.
- radigan, on 11/09/2009, -6/+1looks fake
- sh0rtstop00, on 11/09/2009, -7/+1I object!! It looks more like 90000000000 birds
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