June 22nd, 2006 @ 1:29 pm
starling swarming
Earth Science Picture of the Day
During spring in Denmark, at approximately one half an hour before sunset, flocks of more than a million European starlings (sturnus vulgaris) gather from all corners to join in the incredible formations shown above. This phenomenon is called Black Sun (in Denmark)
picture links to hi-res / multishot photo hosted on my site if you can’t get their site to work fast enough (not that RIT lets my upload be all that speedy)
