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[aroraborealis]

I think this is the best thing I've seen on the internet today:

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[cos]

Did you ever see Winged Migration?

[aroraborealis]

With you and hawkegirl, if I recall!

[cos]

That sounds entirely plausible! I gathered several groups of people to see it when it was in theaters, usually more than ten people at a time so I don't remember who all went, but at least one of the groups was with her. Twice, possibly, though the time I remember co-organizing a viewing with her was at the Embassy in Waltham.

[youvebeenpixied]

Why do you suppose they were doing that? Making shapes of lungs and crocodiles?

[cos]

I've seen them in person too. They're quite random, within the overall order of staying in a solid group, but we humans can see all sorts of shapes in them, like we do in clouds.

[beah]

I wondered this too. Do they just fly randomly, and some instinct keeps them together? Or are they doing *something* we can't fathom? Like the way bees dance to point the way to a flower?

[aroraborealis]

I think they're just playing for the joy of doing what they do.

[gilana]

Wow, how amazingly beautiful and alien.

[starphire]

Oh absolutely! I saw that video about a month ago and was stunned by it. I've seen smaller clouds of birds doing that kind of aerial dance - once over the Everglades, and closer to home from smallish black birds, usually once or twice a year around sunset along Rte. 9 near the Natick Mall, of all places.

[dougo]

It's a lava lamp! Made from birds!