Flight of the Starlings: Watch This Eerie but Beautiful Phenomenon | Short Film Showcase
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- We know a lot of factual information about the starling-its size and voice, where it lives, how it breeds and migrates-but what remains a mystery is how it flies in murmurations, or flocks, without colliding. This short film by Jan van IJken was shot in the Netherlands, and it captures the birds gathering at dusk, just about to start their "performance." Listen well and you'll be able to hear how this beautiful phenomenon got its name.
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Thank you for NOT adding music
second that! this would have been SO improved by adding jingle-jangle soundtrack ...
Exactly, many videos of nature not just in CZcams, have music
It already had music ;)
I fourth that
Скворцы летят на родину, скворцы. Летят, летят...
I was in a busy airport car park once and an enormous Murmuration like this was happening about 200 yards away. Someone yelled "Look at that" and the entire car park just stopped in silence as everyone noticed it, cars stopped, everybody just stopped. Feeling the collective wonder pass through this crowd of hot and bothered, stressed out people getting off flights made me appreciate the power that nature has to inspire wonder in us, regardless of any modern day context that removes us from it.
Beautiful comment
Dude this comment was cooler than the video 🐐
This was beautiful. Our roots are planted within nature. We come from the sea and sky and unfortunately we have lost touch with nature. It's amazing that you got to exporence true wonder and mass fascination.
So glad I saw this comment
@@ummarooba4066 God is everything. But God does not live for validation. God does not care if you thank them. They only care about glory of nature and time.
The way they disappear at the end, like a phantom spirit, leaving everything else motionless ...
@Angel Santos Thank you!
god is a myth wake up...
@@williamgustavk2184 I find it funny how the bible doesnt even MENTION dinosaurs yet they definitely would have been around at that time
@@williamgustavk2184 why do you say that?
@@mikerotch6733 you read fantasy books?
Sounds like ocean waves....really so stunning.❤
It's a bird tsunami
How they synchronize themselves is amazing.
Are we really that different? One could almost see the to's and fro's of the financial markets in this behavior (or more generally of economies, cultures or even entire ecosystems over longer spans of time)! Distributed cognition in action, all with NO central planning / direction required! Apparently Smith's "Invisible Hand" reigns supreme at many levels all throughout nature.
@@Persona_Incognito I don't know if I agree with Smith 100% but you make a good and interesting point
@@Persona_Incognito This behavior is called "emergence" and it's what happens when any number of systems interact with each other dynamically! New, complex behaviors form, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Our Lord really works on a mysterious way.
Absolutely stunning...the only such film to capture the eerie beauty of the sound of the birds without adding a mindless soundtrack.
It's like a super organism that expresses its full life force in a spectacular dance. Utterly fascinating.
It sounds like waves crashing in the sand. Very relaxing and magical. It must be an amazing feeling to be witness of that.
Yes indeed
This made me cry so hard and I don’t know why.
Total awe and amazement can do that to you.
Spectacular video, especially the ending.
The murmurations are breathtaking while the birds are in flight. Another aspect that's remarkable is when the group decides to land. I watched a murmuration a few winters ago. I could only guess how many birds were involved - thousands, no doubt, but how many thousands I really couldn't say. When they landed on a field they literally turned the field black. There seemed to be not a spare inch of space.
Thank you for sharing!!
Stunning , they sound like the sea x
they sound like zulu
I saw that once we were ancoring on Mauritius.
First i suspected just strange clouds.
It was unbilivable.
Not when they wake you up at 6 in the morning. Then they sound like a chainsaw trying to cold start 😅
Its not by chance that this phenomena is called murmuration... derived from the verb "to murmur", and the sea is murmuring too... it is amazing... i experienced it only once, a few years ago, and first i thought it might be something "extraterritorial" :)
They doooo!!! 🌊
It's amazing how they can move around like that without bumping into each other❤
This happens in my front yard literally every evening. Great show.
Bemabond me too !!! It’s like all the birds meet up for play time 😆
Are they purple starlings?
Where are you from? I’m trying to see this one day!
@@Jetguy1234 me too!
@@Grateful2Exist do you live in the US? Cause i live on the west coast too
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever witnessed. A few years ago I worked at at this place out by some fields. Sometimes where I would park for lunch a much smaller flock of these birds would come and dance in the sky like this while I was eating. It was probably about a hundred to two hundred birds. It was a magnificent sight. 🤩
Then one day, a month or so after I stopped working there I was sitting in my chair and I heard quite a racket outside. I was like, what the heck is that?!
So I went outside and there were 100 to 200 starlings in all the trees surrounding my building, just a chattering away... It was LOUD. Very very LOUD. 😳 😂
Flitting from one tree to another. This lasted about 15 minutes or so, and then one of them took off to the south, and the rest followed. Which also was an amazing sight. 🤩
They have visited more than a few times. I haven't seen them since early spring this year. It seems they stop in to say hello in the spring and fall. So hope to see them again this year.
But things change, so there is just no telling. 🤷♀️
I was lying in my bedroom and a large wind sound woke me up and I was like wow it's some strong winds outside today ..then I was like that's unusually strong..and when I look out the window I saw the school of birds swarming together and designs and shapes in flocking around my house in my backyard it had to been 5,000 birds and just a chirping in the wind from their feathers together it was beautiful I watched them until they were gone
Starlings are amazing and their "Murmurations" is still a mystery on why they do it.
Their recreations reveal that starlings maintain their fluid formations via a mechanism known as scale-free behavioral correlation, in which each bird positions itself next to approximately seven other birds, coordinating its movements to create an overlapping synchronicity.
Although each bird is interacting with its nearby neighbors, every bird’s movements affects and are affected by the entire group, allowing information to travel across the flock at a constant speed. The result is collective decision-making so agile that a signal to turn, usually initiated by a bird on the outskirts, can flash through a flock of 400 birds in half a second-a speed of 90 miles per hour.
So amazing!!
Their behavior seems similar to how sardines swim in huge packs, to defend against predators?
Thank you
Guillermo del toro cabinet of curiosities
Bull
I want to live forever because life always brings me something I never seen before.
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@@kentwilbourne996 well its either this or the chance of getting bitten by a creature of the night.
well that field is definitely fertilized for this year
Yep
Lmfao
Get your head out of the clouds kinda guy, huh?
@@cocknball410 m
@@beeee777 lol sarcasm at its finest above your comment
Laugh it off 🤣 😂 😆
I’ve seen loads of murmuration videos before, but this is the first (and only) one I’ve seen with the addition of the natural sound they make….. absolutely incredible! Thank you for keeping it stunningly simple.
I was once walking along the Tiber River in Rome when a murmuration began overhead while a street musician happened to be playing "Fields of Gold" nearby. Needless to say just about everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up. One of those perfect moments of serendipity and harmony. It was the most relaxing experience I have ever had.
I didn't realise there was a sound they made. They sound like the ocean.
This is truly amazing to me. Life is better moving together as one. I think we all could learn a lot from these birds.
Yep, we are alot like starlings. Aggressive and destroying other species. Have you ever wondered why there are so many starlings in flocks at a time when so many birds are on a downward trend?
This happens in Denmark (SW Jutland) every year as well, the starlings gather in the hundreds of thousands or even millions in the Wadden Sea area before starting their migrations north/south (They do it both in the spring and fall). While they're here eating for a while they'll do those "dances" that we call "sort sol" (Black sun) which attracts a lot of people since it's so cool/strange. :)
Wonderful! I have seen only relatively small murmurations in person, though I have seen some lovely videos. Most of the latter have either been filmed from a distance or been overlaid with dramatic orchestral music. While that might have enhanced the beauty in a way, I find I much prefer the thunder of wings and chatter of the birds! Awesome in the best meaning of the word!😮🥰
That was cool AF!
yowwww
How did I find you here
language Jesus!
Impossible 😁😂🤣
Bitrate wasn't tho
I have watched this video several times. It's my favorite murmuration video. I love the way the sound builds and recedes.
"This is another reminder that the universe has already written the poem that you were planning on writing"
This quote gave me goosebumps ❤
😯
or not..
determinism is one of the many possibilities of an outcome until it does.
Requires some interference, which is utterly random.
🙏
Unbelievably Gorgeous. Just thinking of the primal nature, the physics and coordination of it blows my mind.
What a beautiful show of Mother Nature.
It kind of sounds like ocean waves.
+Popcorn Keyboard Yeah. I guess it's all the wings flapping
We are also nature itself technically .
air lava water - crazy how it all sound the same :)
Toonami30
(أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا إِلَى الطَّيْرِ فَوْقَهُمْ صَافَّاتٍ وَيَقْبِضْنَ ۚ مَا يُمْسِكُهُنَّ إِلَّا الرَّحْمَٰنُ ۚ إِنَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ بَصِيرٌ (19).
19. Do they not see the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them in? None upholds them except the Most Gracious (Allâh. Verily, He is All-Seer of everything.
I am always in awe of the power of the natural world!
This is breathtakingly beautifull! I have seen the real thing many times but never so gigantic as this performance.
I remember seeing this many years ago in Portugal. It was amazing. How they don't bump into each other is unbelievable.
A beautiful example of an organized chaos.
Its not chaos
Oxymoron .
@Abdelilah what about nuclear bombs? Power of god too right? Or maybe the devil, and who made him? Hypocrite
yes I can inly imagine the number of collisions
@@tjn1017 zero
I saw one biggest migration of birds when i was a child i still remember it n tell kids about that it was the most beautiful experience
I just showed this to my 6 year old son. He was amazed. Thank you for sharing this so we could see and hear this phenomenon!
How do they not smash into one another? This is soo beautiful!
There would be a few dead ones laying around I bet
redegeldunit420 no they don't collide.. read the description box
@uncletigger Thank you
@uncletigger science failed you...religion failed the others. If you can't see what's actually going on I'm not gonna explain it. We were misguided as a whole
@uncletigger your fact is only supported by a community that rejects. You wrote a whole lotta nonsense for nothing. I bet you love to stroke that little ego of yours
I would love to see this in real life one day.
leon bushnell don't like it I love it.
leon bushnell lolol
I've seen this shit many times in the Netherlands.
It happened last week in UK. Several people upload a video on internet And say, It is UFO .....lol
If i see like this video in real life... I may shit myself
absolutely divine, nature at her very best thank you Jan what a wonderful beautiful sight to see and hear
It's nature at its worst, starlings are a scourge on the world, they're a locust swarm ruining everything in their path.
Can we get a couple hours of an extended version of this. I was falling asleep from the beautiful sounds😂
Starlings are amazing and intelligent birds that often mimic other birds, I've seen youtube videos of them taking. Wish they would get the respect they deserve.
The sounds they make are amazing!
Wow! So beautiful...and the roaring sound of all those thousands of wings flying up above!! To be where that photographer stood to take that stunning video...blessed! 😍💖🕊
It's like there's something that's controlling them... Nature is mysterious. They just sync and fly in each direction together. So amazing.
Finally something Beautiful on CZcams
I saw a swarm of starlings years ago from my window. It was early morning, the sun had been up for about and hour. Considering I lived in Bronx, New York it was very strange.
From The Bronx here and have yet to see something like this. I'm sure a great spot to see something like this would be Van Cortland Park.
Absolutely stunning. My son watches the starlings when we are out and see them. He made his own video on this channel if anyone wants too see AlfieExperience.
You know what would be really interesting, and something I have never seen? Filming this phenomenon in super slow motion. Up close if possible.
I want someone to attach a GoPro to one of these bad boys
You can adjust the playback speed of the video down to .25x if you want to watch it slower!
@@juniperecheveria6622 nah. bad frames. he meant slow motion in very high fps! it would be amazing
THIS is really interesting, mate. Make something better if you can.
That's what I was thinking. Just to see who moves first and his they react with each other. I'm sure someone has done it. I heard that how they don't bump into each other is because they perceive time differently to us because of their rapid heartbeat. This is just like walking in a crowd to them. I think it's a good theory .
BEAUTIFUL sky painting... I saw birds do this once, in Eugene, OR, some years back. Thought they were rehearsing for a flight south. Now I don't see such huge flocks, haven't for quite a while...
Its like the waves of the ocean
or fish in the Sea.
_Murmurations_
Seen a good video from Israel years ago.
_But this video, it's amazing!_
Wow that's what I was thinking too.
no
The flock navigates as a single organism. How cool!
My girlfriend and I went for a trip to Gettysburg PA. On the drive there, we stopped at a Dairy Queen. While at the Dairy Queen, we looked up in the sky and saw starlings flying like in the video. It was a strange, but fascinating sight to see. We watched for about 20 minutes before continuing on our journey.
Saw Starlings fly like this at dusk at Lipson Cove Conservation Park on the east cost of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. Took several videos - not as clear as this one but bloody awesome to see this occurrence on two seperate nights. When they arrived one night there was no wind and the flocks didn’t join up and just flew straight to the island where they landed for the night.
{فَتَبَارَكَ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَالِقِينَ}[المؤمنون:14]
yes, m0hamm3d was 54 when he consummated the marriage with 6 year old a¡sha. what does this have to do with birds?
@@FixedFace so are you asking or insulting?
Breathtaking, a real art form. The patience the videographer must have had to wait and film this.
They do this whenever a predator is attacking to confuse them and evade their attacks, it's so cool how much effort every starling puts in just to save one!
Amazing lesson for humans as well. (wow) ♥️
I live in the UK & when you see this over Eastbourne Pier it is the most amazing spectacle you will ever see!
When they fly overhead, it sounds like rain.
It probably feels like rain too.
😂😂😂😂😂
Beautiful. I just love birds. Freedom and beauty right there
imagine a tiny gopro positioned on one of their heads lol
lol
That would be great if you could ever get your camera back.
Wow!! Sounds so peaceful. How do they do synchronize like that. Just beautiful
Absolutely amazing flight of these huge numbers of birds, capable of changing formations like a computer programmed drill. This is incredible show of nature at it's best. 👌👌👍👍
finally the original sound and no music! thx
Nature is beautiful beyond words 😍
Wow!! The power of Nature from beautiful creatures of God are so real
yes, thanks so much for sharing and thank God you had the sense to let nature tell the story without drums, etc.
For some reason, this calmed my mind. This phenomenon is fascinating. I love Earth.
this is such a blessing for the eyes
Omg, I’ve been hearing them around my workplace. I live in Mentor, Ohio, an eastern suburb of Cleveland. I’ve lived here most of my life and have never heard crows like what I have heard within the last 3 weeks. The weather has been -16 to 68 and I wonder if the weather is confusing them. We are a big suburb having the Metroparks, suburban life and the in between.
This is hauntingly beautiful, thank you!
Pooped on? It'd be well worth the wash-up, to see such wonder and beauty in person! At least we humans still have SOMEthing in common -- the appreciation of such INCREDIBLE syncronicity of life, and the beauty it creates. THANK YOU for sharing it with your fellow beings!
It's totally amazing how a murmuration of starlings often appears to be one large starling, moving and flying through the air. Has anyone else noticed this?
I must be one of the lucky ones. My apartment overlooks woodland and fields. Between October and November I can sit on my balcony and watch a different show every evening.
I live in a National forest and once when the trees around me were so full of Starling that when I fired a shot off all the birds took flight, I could actually feel the wind from their wings when they took flight. It was awesome.
It’s a shame we don’t see these any more. I was in Kansas during the Korean War and we saw flights like this. Beautiful
i live in kansas and i can confirm i still see this quite often
Allah swt made everything so beautiful subhanallah
Yes
I remember seeing one of these when I was just out delivering newspapers in my hometown. I just stared into the sky in awe.
it's not eerie at all. looks amazing and would make a great screensaver
To which is added the lovely sound of all those wings flapping. An amazing phenomenon. The quelea, in Africa, is also known for this kind of behavior.
Wow, that was mesmerizing! The power of nature.
The power of God.
I hope that this spectacle and many other natural wonders will never end. It's fabulous !
سبحان الله و بحمده سبحان الله العظيم
This has always fascinated me with Starlings. Beautiful film!
Greetings Barbara, how are you.?
at 1:20 a bird of prey picks off a starling at center/bottom of frame
When you see that always look for the predator, that formation flying is a defensive act to confuse hawks..
Matt Riser
good eye!
Nice catch, you've got an... eagle eye
@@mcriser - same defence tactic as a shoal of fish when there's a shark about …
2 words: intelligent design
After watching the "Smarter every day" Boids algorithm application on birds, CZcams recommended this video. Never clicked so fast.. This was amazing and mesmerizing.. =D
There's so many you can hear the roar of their wings collectively beating as they wave across the sky!
So beautiful! I see that there are 101 dislikes for this, really??? 😂 must be tough to be so miserable ay
This is absolutely mesmerizing!! 😮
Absolutely beautiful! I kind of wish these birds could form a hand so they could flip us the bird. We deserve it.
It's choreography that has been rehearsed many times. In Mobile, Alabama area off I-10 to New Orleans I saw a great many flocks in the millions but I was most impressed in Dec 1982 when I saw the record number estimating 9M. What was also interesting was that every bird moved in nearly a straight line flying for 3.5 hrs covering aleast 100 miles and every bird was spaced one behind the other and the same spacing across about a football field width. Not one out of place. I naturally called it in to national geographic as the flew froGA. Copper cable plant in Watkinsville, GA towards Athens, Ga.
just beautiful
No words are really adequate....Astounding Creation!
Greetings Caroline. you’re looking as beautiful as the sunlight, how are you doing my dear friend?
This video reminds me of M.C. Escher' Birds tessellations.
Starlings fly in large flocks like this before roosting for the night. It is believed to confuse predators like raptors and owls who hunt at dusk. It is incredible to watch murmurations one of nature's wonders.
Ur the 666th comment.
Brought to you by...Almighty God. For your viewing pleasure and bafflement on how the birds remain in ever-changing concert without bumping into each other.
Nature is so beautiful if we stop and watch it for awhile.
Wow. Just. One. Word. Wow.
What a lively piece of cinematography.
beautiful
Wow! That they can fly like this without ever running into each other is totally amazing.