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Living here(Illinois) all of my life I just thought this was normal all over the US until people liviing elsewhere gets alarmed. This generally starts in early December and goes on daily for a couple of months, mostly in the early AM. On my morning commute home around 6:30 AM they look like fast moving dark clouds in the distance.

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I used to see flocks like that when I lived in Indiana, they would go for miles.

BTW, how did you embed that video? I thought we could only embed youtube vids....

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---------- Post added December-8th-2011 at 07:32 PM ----------

No it's not.

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Don't know why, but I thought stuff like that was more bat like then bird like. Why we're the birds doing that anyway? just messin around???

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/starling-flock/

Starling flocks, it turns out, are best described with equations of “critical transitions” — systems that are poised to tip, to be almost instantly and completely transformed, like metals becoming magnetized or liquid turning to gas. Each starling in a flock is connected to every other. When a flock turns in unison, it’s a phase transition.
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Anyone Live in Rockville, Md?

Every year the birds would fly over in giants smoke like columns for a few days... land in the parks and crap on everything in site.

the cops would blast shotguns in the air to scare them off b/c the mess was just god awful.

It was pretty cool to watch, though...

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