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🦋 A collection of starlings is called a murmuration

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posted evening of Friday, November 4th, 2011
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In Portland starlings gathered in trees in large groups make an enormous racket you can hear two blocks a way. But if you go to the bottom of the tree and make a loud noise, they will instantly go silent. If you wait a minute or so they'll start up again, but if you make a loud noise again they're shut up again. Eventually they'll fly away, and you can follow the flock to their new tree and do the same thing again.

It was a fun afternoon. And starlings are mean, greedy shits, so I feel no guilt whatsoever.

posted evening of November 4th, 2011 by John Emerson

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