

Postmortem examinations of the birds concluded that they had likely died from impacting the ground while evading a predator. Well, theres hope for those of you who want to stand out from the crowd heres a list of specific names (known as nouns of assemblage) for groups of different birds. Use your thumb to push the rim back in if it starts to widen. Have you ever tried to describe a group of birds but couldnt find a more original term that simply 'a flock' Yup, its the same tired, old vocabulary used by everyone else.

Then, cradling the pinch pot in the palm, use the index and middle fingers to belly out the form while keeping the rim from expanding. AeroInside has currently 54 articles available for reading involving incidents, accidents and crashes attributed to the cause Flock of birds. A Similar Incident in the UK in 2019Ī similar incident occurred in December 2019 in the UK when roughly 225 starlings were discovered dead on a back road. Start with a ball of clay Shape into a pinch bowl Widen the belly Turn the pot over and let the form stiffen up some. Do you want to learn where and when Flock of birds has been registered as a likely cause for an aviation incident Subscribe now to read unlimited articles and get our daily briefing via e-mail. “You can see that they act like a wave at the beginning, as if they are being flushed from above.”Įxperts also say that because flocking birds may follow the flight patterns of nearby birds instead of being aware of the landscape around them, tightly packed flocks may sometimes risk colliding with structures or even the ground. The sudden flight of a heron, the flight of a flock of birds over the water surface, the sensation of water and plantlife living as one are aspects that make this place special to Nature lovers and those seeking peace and quiet. We know a lot of factual information about the starlingits size and voice, where it lives, how it breeds and migratesbut what remains a mystery is how it f. “This looks like a raptor like a peregrine or hawk has been chasing a flock, like they do with murmurating starlings, and they have crashed as the flock was forced low,” Broughton says. Richard Broughton of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, tells the Guardian that he is 99% sure the flock was trying to escape a predatory bird and had been chased into the ground.
