Regardless of what you might think of starlings, this phenomenon is awe-inspiring.
h/t Andrew Sullivan.
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November 5, 2011 by praxislandarch
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Think of it as a distant echo of the passenger pigeon.
Images like that make me think of schools of fish in the ocean.