Ten Million Starlings Swarm (7 Tonnes of Bird Poo) | Superswarm | BBC Earth
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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2021
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Huge amount of respect for the guy who counted until 10 million birds, wow.
Even more respect for the one who sat there and weighed the 7 tonne poo!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha...
Lol
🤣🤣🤣
I was a dumb tourist in London once. I bought lunch but could not find anywhere to sit. I noticed there were plenty of places to sit in Trafalgar square, which seemed odd. I had barely eaten two mouthfuls before the Pigeon Shit started raining down on me. Only then did I understand..
Wonder how many people were watching you that knew it was going to happen and laughed their ass off lol.
The fact that there was poop all over the place doesnt made you think, huh?
haha
in summer 2019 i went to london and there was this guy that had pigeons on him and around him
@@eziohagebuddne3097 it rains a lot there. Lol, maybe just their lucky day.
Imagine laying on the beach and suddenly hearing frightened human screams times 10
Nah I’m good
@@BallJuiceOfZeus Then imagine tax inspector sounds multiplied x10
I'd be more worried about the raining bird feces
@@NaziKiller3264 *raining tax inspector feces
👉God almighty says,
*Have they never observed how the birds are poised in the vault of heaven? Who holds them up but Allah? There are many Signs in this for those people who believe.*
Qur'an 16:79
👉God almighty speaks about other signs:
*They can see alternation of the night🌃 and day🌅, in the ships that sail the ocean🚢 laden with cargoes beneficial to mankind, and in the rain-water🌧which Allah sends down from the sky and thereby gives life to the earth after its death🏕 and spreads over it all kinds of animate creatures(🐫🦜🦅🐼🐘🐺🐑🐈🐕🦃), in the blowing of the winds and in the clouds☁️ which obediently wait for orders between the sky and the earth. (In spite of such clear signs of the Oneness☝️ of Allah), there are people who set up equals and rivals with Allah and adore them with the adoration due to Allah . whereas the Believers adore Allah most ardently.*
Quran 2 :164-165
👉God Almighty says in Qur'an,
*He is Allah, the One and Only. Allah is Independent of all and all are dependent on Him. Neither has He an offspring nor is He the offspring of anyone. And none is equal with Him in rank.*
Quran Chep 112
👉God Almighty says to the people of this world:
*This then is, Allah, your Lord; there is no deity but He is the Creator of everything : so worship Him alone, for He is the Guardian of all things, No sight can comprehend Him but He comprehends all sorts of sight, for He is All-Comprehensive and All-Aware.*
Quran 6 (102-103)
*Allah is our creator who gives life and death and will again resurrect us on the day of Judgment.*
*Fear Allah and worship only Allah.*
*There is no God except Allah and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is his Last and Final Messanger.*
The birds...the poo...the screaming bird sound...the thunder & lightning...it's like some strange otherworldly horror flick.
CHIDORI
I bet the birds feel the same way about humans! :D~
You should check out the movie ‘The Birds’ old horror flick, genuinely terrified the actors, although it is not such a scary movie.
Imagine living in the apartment building near those trees and having that commotion happening outside your window... and then seeing your car the next morning lol
Imagine having a bad day and when you finally get to go home you see your car like this 😫
@Jazzy Cool u can have more than one car
cover your car, let the birds sleep
You see from a human viewpoint. See it from the birds'. They too come back at night to sleep on the trees, and get thrown out. Meanwhile humans continue to enjoy in their air-conditioned homes.
@Jazzy Cool You must be American or Canadian. Many people don't drive their cars everyday. They walk or use public transportation and only use their car once in a while.
@@shreeveda God forgives, but we don't!
I remember watching the starlings on Summer evenings when I was a child ,in Devon, UK. Massive flocks of them, every evening. Then they seemed to dwindle and it became a rare sight.
I've noticed, over the last few years , when visiting home , that smaller flocks seem to be coming back and this wonderful sight is happening again. We took the display for granted, but ,when I saw them again as an elderly woman, one evening driving outside Exeter, Devon, I had to pull over and watch their amazing display.
Wow! My 3rd Great-Grandparents are from Devon/Exeter area. I have been fascinated by the Starling murmurations hoping to see them somewhere,.....thank You!
Pulling over*
Anita Stone it’s because farmers poison them!
Amazing...
And the vocal abilities of starlings are equally fabulous.
0:43 can we all appreciate how clean the transition was
@@BallJuiceOfZeus Do you even understand that there is a transition from the outside view of a viewfinder to the original camera record, that they take out from the camera? This: 0:43 and this: 0:46 is made with a different camera. Here is the transition: 0:45
its ite
@@kashmirha Furthermore, they would have needed to reposition their main video camera to the exact position and angle of the guys photo camera
@@kashmirha When there is a transition to the actual footage - why are there still display reflections on the left side? I actually do not think that there even is a transition, its just the focus adjusting to the screen.
@@BallJuiceOfZeus How is it in any way stupid? 🤦♂️
2:56 a backwards question mark just after narrator says "...where they should spend the night"
I had a massive starling swarm descend on my farm one morning. When I looked out the window at my black lawn, I thought the world was ending.
🤣
😂😂👌👌👌
And you might have saved fertilizer cost for 2 years
Lucky you
@@immortal5670 and pest control
I see galaxies forming, then merging and then breaking up. Each bird is a Star-ling .. beautiful stuff
Thanks for the poetry 💕
👍
Synchronization between birds is amazing
Just like schools of minnows or small fish. How the heck do they coordinate like that?
@@charlieandhudsonspal1312 Sorry pour le Francais mais j'ai deja entendu la reponse: chaque oiseau vole en formation avec les sept autres oiseaux qui sont les plus proches. C'est la seule regle! Comme ils ont tous le meme temps de reaction, ca fait les effets de vagues mexicaines.
@@cecilyfalla745 I like how you assume they can speak French
Surely the sync happens unconciously..
"Do you fancy going to Rome this winter?"
"OK, but I hope it's not too crowded"
"How convenient that theres parking space at the trainstation!"
No mosquitos this days.
"now it is possible to take cameras into the swarms and fly among them"
*shreds a bird with the blades*
Sometimes they cover it with a steel like cage around the blades, maybe they used it here aswell, not sure.
If you can put a man on the moon and split the atom I'm sure there's a safe and harmless way to fly a camera with a flock of birds 😅
The coordinated behavior of these birds is amazing, resulting in an emergent "super being" in the sky. I have personally seen this once with a swarm of bees that moved in coordination with such precision in the air as to hover and descend like a space ship next to my vehicle. I don't know why they did it, but they moved like a superstructure rather than in a random fashion. The result was bigger than any one individual bee.
It is as if God is bored and playing around with His creations.
You were lucky to see the swarm of honeybee and Starling Murmuration they were making the rains the were creating the static electricity in the atmosphere to charged the particles in the air the charge particles can form the water droplets the amazing of nature the humans should learn from them
They need to build a starling grove that is more attractive for them. Our starlings sleep in the park. The fertilizer is useful there.
One million starlings: I sleep
7 tonnes of bird poo: Real shit
Huh
Ok
Fertilizer
I see what u did there😂😂
@@kattfish6135 yup, fertilizer for debt
When he said it was possible to get closer, who else expected a "spy starling"?
I thought they strapped a camera to a starling
They lost two drones that day due to collision with a bird.
hope they at least used a fixed winged drone.
An albatros in diguise. The perfect Spy.
I wonder if you could steer the swarm away / to more desirable areas with lots of these.
Car washes must be popular spots during that season!
Imagine throwing a loaf of bread at this scene!
I would so like to
ROTFLMAO One loaf of bread makes such a fuss among just a few birds such as geese, etc. This would surely create chaos.
That will scare the shit outa them
Starlings don't eat bread.
Mysterious shapes in the sky with inexplicable, mesmerizing flight paths. People in Hazmat suits wielding sound weaponry...I am pretty sure this was an x-files plot!
Can you not do that on everyone's posts 😂 tf lol@اختكم ام مريم اختكم ام مريم
Perfectly too...
@BBC Earth • Thank you for providing an explanation of why the birds were flocking to the cities to roost at night. I heard about this several years ago but didn't realize it's because the birds like the heat-island effect in the cities.
I didn't know it was seasonal either! Glad to know its basically every starling on the continent and rome doesn't have a population problem
Order and chaos together as one. The spirit of beauty.
I've seen bird migrations like that in North Carolina, but on a much grander scale. Was like watching a great, black, noisy river that meandered through the sky, stretching from the northern to the southern horizion.
Their dance must certainly be a sight to behold.
Good news, you just beheld it!
Good news, you just beheld it!
I forgot that David Tenant did nature narration. It's good to know that some animals still exist in thier millions. We haven't wiped out everything yet.
I didn't realise it was him! He's a good narrator
Have you left your city ever? Nature exists everywhere in huge amounts, if you put down your computer and walk into it
We did a pretty good job of wiping out Starlings in Britain. There are a few flocks around, but nothing like the numbers we had 35 years ago.
I remember seeing them use the main highway out of London through Essex in the evenings. The sound was tremendous and they made spectacular viewing.
Incredibly skilled they manage to maneuver as individuals and as a swarm.
Where I come from, birds always do this before a big storm (a.k.a. before a period of food scarcity). They are more reliable than the weather report.
This happened over central Missouri in 2003; I estimated 1,000 birds a minute for several hours. It was a constant River of birds flying NE to SW.
The closest thing we’ve ever had to that was a swarm of Locus
on Gibraltar, the birds mass to make the crossing to Africa; the swarms are so dense that radar picks them up easily. must be a sight to see - lol if wearing shit-repellent clothing and ht!
It's a sign
@@donnacollingridge5709 Well, yeah! A sign that everything is going to be covered in bird poop.
We used to see huge flocks of starlings and black birds fly over our house when I was a child in the 1950's. It would go on for about 45 minutes non-stop. I would sit out there with a coke and some cookies and watch it before going into the house to do my home work.
I’ve been a victim of this swarm in Rome...was like why is everybody have umbrellas it’s sunny day out... then it happened cloud of poop rain, lol was a great vacation!
Oh no 🤣
What a beautiful feeling it must be to be able up fly in the sky freely
Nature is always beautiful...
I have seen many times of their acrobatic dances and moves on my rooftop in evening
We used to get "Purple Rain" in my neighbourhood. I should have written that song in the 1970's. The area in Toronto where I grew up was populated by many Italians and in the home wine making season they bought thousands of crates of whole grapes, "Uva por vino" signs everywhere, then they put what was left of the grapes out for garbage. Of course the birds gobble it up and then s#it purple poo on the area for a while.
Seeing this when you stress is make you Happy ;)
As long as you skip watching the end sections?🕊
@@conniestone6251 I mean the dance
As a kid i would wait for the bus and watch the bird swarms in the morning. Always beautiful.
Where is this place please ?
@@samirtoto4807 out in central Utah along the Wasatch Front. Rhe sounds were alwaya beautiful
Imagine being woken up by murderous screams and thunder at the same time
Dear lord imagine being late for work but your car is buried is deep bird shit.
Imagine the starlings roosting on the lower branches.
I could watch this all day, but that's a lot of poop lol
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I'd rather they didn't fly over my house!! ☺️☺️☺️ Isn't nature marvelous though! 🌈
Too bad the farmers can't get them to roost in their fields!
My thoughts exactly!
Looks so graceful and mesmerising watching them 🙂👍
The best TCAS (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) system you'll ever see.
These birds must be preserved at any cost, thanks🙏
I agree! 🙂
🎵 You would not believe my words
If 10 million crapping birds
Littered the world as I fell asleep 🎵
So fluid and dynamic, like a timelapse without the slow down, INSANE !!!!
I have witnessed this phenomena in Iowa in the US. They winter they do the same thing. Its amazing to watch.
I had the good fortune of experiencing a flock of migrating starlings making a stop in the spruce right outside my kitchen window on the third floor in Norway. I got to watch them from only a few meters away. Pretty birds and funny too. Hard to say how many they were, but I'd say between 1 and 2 hundred maybe.
They are constantly chatting with each other, so when there's that many in one tree, it becomes quite the spectacle. The magpie pair that normally considers this tree their space, were positively flabbergasted and quickly realized the futility in chasing them when there were so many, so they just flew off. After a 10-15 minutes rest, they moved on. It was dusk, and I don't know if they migrate at night. Some birds do, some don't. But whatever the case they didn't spend the night right outside my apartment, which was maybe a blessing. If they keep that chatter up all night, I'd say it was. Who knows, maybe they were headed to Rome.
Wow, that's unbelievable!!
Dang, that starling's alarm call is the stuff of nightmares.
People in the camera: No This is beautiful in the Sky
There is nothing beautiful about starlings.
I'm sure it's as much annoying to the humans in the neighborhood that are woken up by it. 🤦♂️
The murmurations made some weird and wonderful shapes. Mesmerising to watch 😊
I love the Starlings.They are such colourful and cheerful birds.
Imagine you’re a tourist in Rome and you think “Ok, I’ve seen all the sights this city has to offer. There CANT POSSIBLY BE MORE.”
Then you see a small team of people wearing PPE walking around playing screeching noises from loudspeakers.
“Well it appears I was wrong”
Fantastic. What an amazing world.
Emagine eating an ice cream then suddenly a ton of bird poo is dropped on your mouth and ice cream
They know how to make a spectacular show.
In 1970 I went fishing in Lockerbie, Scotland and as we anchored the boat we witnessed a scene just like this above the lake in front of us. Then after a while they came over us to roost in a massive reed bed behind us and the crap fell on us like heavy rain. I have seen flocks of starlings since but nothing remotely in the numbers i saw that night.
Mother nature 👍👍👍🐦
That poor person having a crappy day and thinks that nothing else could go wrong, that is until they see their car😂
About 40 years I ago I lived in Manchester, England... In the centre of the city was a big square, Piccaddilly Gardens. At dusk in the winter there would be huge swarms of Starlings swirling overhead, so many that the noise of the birds was heard above all the city traffic. They settled for the night on all the trees in the Gardens and the volume of poo and urine was unbelievable - you could see it flowing under the trees and the phone boxes in the square looked like candles, with all the poo looking like candle wax. I heard that the birds killed off all the vegetation in the square. In the 90s they rebuilt the whole square. I don't think starlings gather like that any more?
I knew this was Rome from the thumbnail, this is truly amazing and it happens every summer. I have seen it many times and it is truly a sight to behold.
I’ve never seen them in summer; it’s always October to February in Rome
Did you seen this in usa ?
I saw it in Rome in December 2004 and I was awestruck. I had never even heard of such a thing before. I live in Florida, have traveled to dozens of countries and have not see this again but would love to.
We tried this alarm call technique. It mildly disturbed the starlings feasting on our fruit trees but really disturbed the neighbours.
Try hawks and falcons. They’ll stop feasting on your fruit trees really fast if you do.
Bio- acoustics work well if used right. Them using it amplified x100 is pointless as it will become a meaningless noise that the birds couldn't produce. Kept at the correct volume that the birds themselves use they will recognise it as THEIR alarm call. I suppose so called experts thought these control measures. I controlled birds using trained Hawks for years, limited success after a while but very lucrative if you have the Hawks!
It’s so beautiful. I could watch them for hours such art.
i miss these little guys its beautiful to see in Wales on the hills walking truly amazing site
I used to see swarms of sparrows like that when I was a kid.... endless building erased that awesome sight from vegas😔
Truly beautiful. Although it is definitely terrifying, too, it’s amazing how coordinated they look!
Holy crap.
Literally.
Everybody gangsta till the starlings merge together and become Cthulhu!
Ha yea!
I had a large swarm of starlings land in my yard(which is about 7 acres) once, however it was probably around 50,000 to 100,000 I believe.
God's natural air artists. Stunning and mesmerising. 😊 Perfect harmony.
Kudos for counting the number of starlings you're a legend.
That is incredibly beautiful to watch. Astonishing.
Please don't ask "who's still listening in 2019, 2020 ,2100, 3000,..." We'll be coming here till the end of time
Oh my what a comment 😁💙
2021, i'm here 🥰
@Final Paragon Inorite? It was only uploaded a week ago and this guy with a time machine ruins it all for us.
Anyway, who's still watching in 2021?
2018
Astonishing & Amazing Sight! Wow! Mind-blowing Visuals created by the birds!
I was sad when I heard that the passenger pigeons went extinct because I thought they were the only birds which had such awesome flocks but now I'm incredibly happy ever since I've heard about starlings.
THOSE STARLINGS DEVOUR EVERYTHING IN THE SKY INCLUDING ALL THE OTHER BIRDS - THEY ARE A SCOURGE
That requires an awful lot of insects to fuel, just the "spent fuel" alone weighs 7 tons per night! It's amazing to look at no matter what way you look.
Awesome footage... Thank you for sharing it... ☺️
This is about the tenth time I've watched this. I find it fascinating.
I fed about a hundred down the coast yesterday, they were preparing for their winter migration to Africa, they were landing on my door mirror and eating out my hand, the looked like tiny dinosaurs and reminded my of my young Jack Russell dogs the way they wait in turn and await their treats
Beautiful
Such a sad scenario - it's the birds world too !!! It's like waking you up at night and throwing you out of your house because you poop in your own house
They wouldn't gather there if it wasn't for the humans creating the heat that they enjoy so much. Therefore humans were there first so in reality the birds are the guests and they are literally shitting everywhere.
Perhaps we could try to outsmart them; build starling drones that they'll follow / try to move the swarm to other areas.
@@wylde780 tf r u saying
@@shineyu1097 The video says that they only swarm over the city because the city has warmth. Meaning they wouldn't be there if the humans weren't there. Meaning the humans were there first, and the starlings only showed up to get warm off of all the heat a city produces.
Indeed, yes! It is humane though. Thankfully they don't hurt the wee things
Things to pack for a trip to Rome: 1. Beach umbrella, 2. White plastic poncho & white rubber over shoes. 🤔 feels like I'm forgetting something.
Absolutely amazing.
Flying stars in the sky 😍💫😍
"So you think you can destroy me? Look what I do to your windshields!"
- Nature
3:41 this is earth coming back.
Me after going from the car wash.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...."
@@Paraclef not really because the birds like it in the city xD
@@DundG I meant, this is dirty earth covering the city ♥
Now that's worth watching beautiful formations hypnotizing
I'm glad they don't hurt the birds in order to deal with them.
They heard there's a guy named Francis in charge. When I lived in Wilmington, Delaware huge streams of starlings (but not this huge) would pass over the city morning and evening.
Wow!!! Super!!
Amazing
in couple more years this would be extremly rare to see
Ah God doth have a good sense of humor
The patterns the birds make are called murmurations, yes I googled it.
That drone couldn’t keep up to speed with the birds 😂
Incredible show, Love David Tennant narrating.
In the early sixties this used to happen in downtown Paterson, NJ every fall ! Now I can prove it...thanks !
IM GETTING GOOSEBUMPS JUST WATCHING MOTHER NATURE IN 🎬 ACTION
SUBHANELLAH ❤️
SubhanAllah
Nature is always beautiful!
Thanks for awesome video of these cute speckled starlings, and WOW do they poop!