http://www.howitworksdaily.com How It Works will feed your mind with informative and entertaining answers about the world around us. Packed with articles, videos, interactive illustrations and Q&As - it's enlightening fun for the whole family...' Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:54:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.howitworksdaily.com/environment/like-nothing-youve-ever-seen-before-the-amazing-flocking-behaviour-of-starlings/ http://www.howitworksdaily.com/environment/like-nothing-youve-ever-seen-before-the-amazing-flocking-behaviour-of-starlings/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:29:53 +0000 Helen http://www.howitworksdaily.com/?p=350 More serene than many of our other video posts, this is a truly balletic display of avian flight

Winter evenings near this marshland in Oxford see mammoth flocks of starlings take to the sky in a nightly display of incredible aerobatic synchronicity. Watch as swarms of up to a thousand birds undulate like massive waves through the half-lit sky – and never bump into each other. It’s really quite stunning.

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