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As the sun falls over a vast Danish marshland, more than a million starlings undulate in mesmerising murmurations – but how they do it remains mysterious

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Tags: denmark, ecosystems, wetlands, marshlands, parks.national, wadden sea national park, wildlife, ornithology, ethology, birds, starlings, murmuration, author.tim bird, source.bbc travel
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Denmark's mysterious natural phenomenon
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  1. timo
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    Nice! They write they don’t know how they do it, but someone wrote an algorithm for it in 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids And if you’ve ever seen a group of birds, you know they respond...

    By Tim Bird

    Nice!

    They write they don’t know how they do it, but someone wrote an algorithm for it in 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids

    And if you’ve ever seen a group of birds, you know they respond to each other. One gets scared, flies up and the rest follows. Their response times and movement are extremely quick. Why they do it exactly, though, is another question.

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