Collective nouns fascinate me. I think there should be one
for them, for collective nouns themselves but, I don't think there is...This
week, all over the Internet, especially YouTube, Twitter, and FaceBook, and Vimeo:
everyone is fascinated by this short
clip of two girls in a canoe who witness so many starlings flocked together
over a lake, they block out the sky as they wheel and dip, in their seemingly choreographed
movements. It is as if there are enough birds flying in concert at one time,
their undulations cover the entire length and width of the lake for something
like three minutes. I keep studying the configurations and realize the birds
resemble pointillist painters' work, or delicate etch-a-sketch filings being
tipped ever-so-gently this way, then that...always unpredictably and awe
inspiring...and this many together? It's called a murmuration.
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