January 16, 2015 at 1:53 pm

The Coordinated Beauty of Thousands of Birds Moving In Sync

by twistedsifter

 

Seen here is a huge flock of starlings (known as a murmuration), soaring above the skies of Utrecht in the Netherlands. While the science behind their uncanny coordination is not fully understood, what is known is at the individual level, when a neighbour moves, so do you. The hypnotic movements were captured earlier this year by Alpaca Media

 

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