The way it builds from an initial murmuration of clarinets is not unlike the way Palimpsest I proceeds. |
Grrlscientist brings us a spectacular video of a murmuration of starlings. |
As the murmuration pulses and swoops, the crowd of onlookers follow its progress as though the same simultaneous force impelled them too. |
And then at last, the enormous murmuration, the giant whispering, coming from within the mist. |
Once a murmuration gets this large, the best way to get rid of them is through a major concerted effort, as officials were doing Monday evening, he said. |
And a soft, hard-to-place chittering sound that if you pay close attention turns out to be hundreds of human conversations weaving in and out of one another in a great collective murmuration. |