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5.000 – 10.000 European Starlings are sitting in four groups in the trees and fly away at the end.
Suburban recording. So some traffic.
You see starlings often in large swarms. This group formation is done step by step, every day more and make a few starlings joined the group. This leads finally in August to the known starlings clouds and sleeping accommodations of up to tens of thousands of birds.
Why starlings stay so massive, there ornithologists are still not agree. For safe for birds of prey as they are not real, such a crackling loud chatter pulls from afar attention. However, the probability of a starling being caught in the smaller group because the Raptor has trouble choosing. Especially inexperienced robbers have difficulty. The theory of the British biologist Wynne-Edwards is that starlings want to see how many they are, with a view to the available quantity of food in the circumference.
I am fortunate that the starlings gather themselves in the trees in frond of my apartment. Around dusk they come and at dawn they go away again. The whole night there is a friendly twittering. Sometimes soft then hard again. My microphone stand all day waiting for these sound recordings.
What’s so wonderful is that the starlings sometimes keep silent all together for a moment. You can hear it after 4.10, 6.44 and 8.42 minutes. Listen to how the silence falls after the birds have left. The way they act in flying, chatting and keep silent seems to be one large organism with one brain.
More recordings: kruiskamp starlings
Date/time: October 29th Saterday 2016, start 08.12 AM
Weather: 11c, foggy cloudy, wind NNW 0bft, 1035 hPa. Hum 99%, Mic pointed S
Location; Kruiskamp, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Noord-Brabant, Netherlands (Holland), Europe.
Gear chain: Sennheiser mkh30/50 MS, in Rycote cyclone small, windjammer > Sound Devices 302 >Tascam dr-100 Mk2. Decoded Mid-side to STEREO
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