The collective noun for a flock of owls is a parliament, for crows, a murder, and for starlings it’s a murmuration. While the first two are playful anthropomorphising fun, the third is far more poetic. The video shows two girls canoeing in the River Shannon, Ireland, before they stumble into one of nature’s rare and mesmerizing performances – a murmuration of starlings , creating exquisite shapes as they dance synchronously in the sky.
The video paints a very different picture of these apparently terrifying giants. When a local swimmer went into the bay for a morning training swim in May of 2019, she was approached by three orcas, a mother and two calves; instead of attacking her, they drifted playfully around her in the water, the mother practically nibbling at her toes. When the swimmer reached the shore, overwhelmed with joy, she even decided to return to the water, and the mother orca joined her again to for a swim.
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