Video of Starlings swarming in Ireland Starlings Murmuration

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The amazing Starling Murmuration video captured by two female tourists on the River Shannon in Ireland.
A Great way to tour the rivers of Ireland by canoe, was made even more exciting, with this chance spectacular encounter of a massive Starlings swarm - Murmuration. It looks like it was Lough Derg and one of the islands near Holy Island.
Swarms of Starlings are a common sight in Ireland, this is not unique or exceptional as other videos of Starlings Murmuration show, but it is exciting than usual.

Many other are reporting seeing huge starling murmurations this year. Murmurations are when flocks of starlings come together around dusk wheeling and turning to create amazing shapes across the early evening sky.
Starlings are best known for their wonderful swirling aerial displays at dusk. This involves the co-ordinated movements of a huge number of individuals, as they prepare to roost during the winter months. Beautiful and comical little birds, they emit a variety of chuckles and whistles, along with good imitations of the songs of other birds.
A flock of starlings is also known as a 'murmuration'.
Scientific name: Sturnus vulgaris
Common starling,
European starling

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Lough Derg (loch of the red eye") is the third-largest lake (or lough) in Ireland after Lough Neagh and Lough Corrib. It is a long, relatively narrow lake, with shores in counties Clare (south-west), Galway (north-west), and North Tipperary (to the east). There are many places to be reached by crossing Lough Derg, one of the popular ones being Gary Kennedy. The lake is the last of the three largest on the River Shannon, with the other two, Lough Ree and Lough Allen lying further north. Some towns or villages on Lough Derg include Gary Kennedy, Portumna, Killaloe & Ballina, Dromineer, Terryglass and Mountshannon.
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The lough where the Starlings were seen swarming in Ireland. and video captured Starlings Murmuration.
At its deepest, the lake is 36 metres deep and covers an area of 118 km² (45.5 sq miles). The lake is a popular place for leisure boating, sailing and fishing. Close downstream of where Lough Derg empties into the Shannon are the falls of Doonass, the largest fall on the otherwise gently sloping river, with the nearby location of the world's then-largest hydroelectric power plant at Ardnacrusha in 1927.

In the nineteenth century, Lough Derg was an important artery from the port at Limerick to Dublin through the canals in the midlands of Ireland. Navigable over its full 40 km length, Lough Derg is today popular with cruisers and other pleasure traffic, as well as sailing and fishing. The University of Limerick have an activity centre by the lake, just north of Killaloe, where there are canoes, kayaks, windsurfing, sailing dingies, and other recreations.

Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sense of suspended reality, and the flock filmed above the River Shannon contained thousands.

What makes possible the uncanny coordination of these murmurations, as starling flocks are so beautifully known? Until recently, it was hard to say. Scientists had to wait for the tools of high-powered video analysis and computational modeling. And when these were finally applied to starlings, they revealed patterns known less from biology than cutting-edge physics.

Starling flocks, it turns out, are best described with equations of “critical transitions” — systems that are poised to tip, to be almost instantly and completely transformed, like metals becoming magnetized or liquid turning to gas. Each starling in a flock is connected to every other. When a flock turns in unison, it’s a phase transition.

At the individual level, the rules guiding this are relatively simple. When a neighbor moves, so do you. Depending on the flock’s size and speed and its members’ flight physiologies, the large-scale pattern changes. What’s complicated, or at least unknown, is how criticality is created and maintained.

It’s easy for a starling to turn when its neighbor turns — but what physiological mechanisms allow it to happen almost simultaneously in two birds separated by hundreds of feet and hundreds of other birds? That remains to be discovered, and the implications extend beyond birds. Starlings may simply be the most visible and beautiful example of a biological criticality that also seems to operate in proteins and neurons, hinting at universal principles yet to be understood.
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