I saw blackbirds doing these kinds of aerial ballets right after the storm of 1998 cleared. They looked like they were celebrating the sunshine returning. It was one of the most incredible sights I have ever seen animals do. They literally formed moving three-dimensional solid sculptures in the sky with amazing coordinated flying that makes anything humans do look like child's play.
The birds in this video are doing the same thing I saw but the forms these birds are making weren't beautiful like the ones I saw above Broadway in Eureka. The forms our birds made were more complex that those in the video and the amazing part is that the three-dimensional forms had "edges" to them that were kept intact yet were in fast motion and changed constantly. How these birds can do such coordinated flying is astonishing.
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=8704649
Animals do the most amazing things.
That is awesome! The ones I have seen around here are giant flocks of Starlings, and they do this right before they dive into the trees to roost. There seem to be more of them around open fields.
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