A murmuration of starlings ...

[eppur_se_muova]

[Angry Dragon]

1. What I see is someone laying on their side

[eppur_se_muova]

7. The shape reminds me of a cloud. :^) nt

:)

[nolabear]

2. It's Casper the Friendly Flock!

[sarge43]

3. In action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE

[era veteran]

4. Flying histosplasmosis factory

Shakespeare to Blame for Introduction of European Starlings to U.S.
Brought here on a lark, starlings are now at every turn.

"The Acclimatization Society released some hundred starlings in New York City’s Central Park in 1890 and 1891. By 1950 starlings could be found coast to coast, north past Hudson Bay and south into Mexico. Their North American numbers today top 200 million. As bird-watcher Jeffrey Rosen put it in a 2007 New York Times article, “It isn’t their fault that they treated an open continent much as we ourselves did.”

[tavalon]

5. I see the hand of God

Getting ready to put the smack down on those pretty trees.

[LeftinOH]

6. They were introduced to North America during the final years of the Passenger Pigeon's existence,

except no market has been found for starling meat or feathers -too bad, since they're tremendous pests. What's more, flocks like the one in the photo are hazardous to aviation.

[hunter]

8. I'm sure we could make some kind of fast food out of them...

... in which case they'd be extinct quicker than the Passenger Pigeon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_nugget