Strange bird behavior?

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Opacus Offer Upgrade User ID: 675136 United States 01/31/2011 09:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Strange bird behavior? So today, for about the 4th time since the week after xmas 2010, saw some strange behavior in a large group of black birds. They were swarming which I've never seen them do before AND also seemed confused. Some would fly one way and some would go another way. There were also VERY loud in thier chirping because there were so many of them. They did all of this for about 1/2 hour before they finally flew far enough away I didn't see them anymore. This was in WV. Does anyone know of a way to tell whether this is NORMAL behavior? I haven't ever noticed this before, but to be honest, haven't paid much attention to it either so I'm trying to find out what is what. O.

Anonymous Coward User ID: 1144159 United States 01/31/2011 09:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Sounds like a perfectly normal flock of Startlings... some incorrectly call 'black birds'. Strangely, since the USDA poisoned off a bunch of 'black birds' really startlings in South Dakota a couple of weeks back I have seen none here in mid-Nebraska. Now we have gackles, which I had never before seen here. And these gackles just love to eat the cat food we leave out for the neighborhood 'stray' cat.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1188080 United States 01/31/2011 09:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Some times birds will do this when weather is about to move in. They are trying to find the right way to go away from the storm.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1208236 United States 01/31/2011 09:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Similar behavior has been observed in PA and no, it's not normal. Here's another post about birds acting strangely: Thread: (UPDATED INFO: 01/12/11) Birds Flying in Heavy Snow acting Very Confused!!! Western PA

Opacus (OP) User ID: 675136 United States 02/01/2011 08:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Similar behavior has been observed in PA and no, it's not normal. Here's another post about birds acting strangely: Thread: (UPDATED INFO: 01/12/11) Birds Flying in Heavy Snow acting Very Confused!!! Western PA Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1208236 Thanks for the video. There are no power lines where I saw this (wel, there are, but not close) and the birds WERE flting in circles but they were WIDE circles, and two groups would go in different directions. There were hundreds of them. I could see how they would smack into each other when it was dark but it was daylight. O.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1205162 United States 02/01/2011 08:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Yay bird thread! I was so sick of crappy Egypt Doom.
Hickory User ID: 974021 United States 02/01/2011 08:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Normal OP. You should see the size of the flocks in Europe, millions. Flying back and forth. Their is video out there of this. You have one life. Live it. You have one voice, use it. You have one :Hickory-1:

Opacus (OP) User ID: 675136 United States 02/01/2011 09:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Normal OP. You should see the size of the flocks in Europe, millions. Flying back and forth. Their is video out there of this. Quoting: Hickory Thanks. Has anyone who is actually a bird expert (whatever they are called) said anything abotu this? How are we able to dtermine what is normal and what isn't? O.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1202546 United Kingdom 02/01/2011 09:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Yep,she did'nt have a headache last night..strange!
birdwatcher1 User ID: 1304805 United States 03/19/2011 08:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Sounds like a perfectly normal flock of Startlings... some incorrectly call 'black birds'. Strangely, since the USDA poisoned off a bunch of 'black birds' really startlings in South Dakota a couple of weeks back I have seen none here in mid-Nebraska. Now we have gackles, which I had never before seen here. And these gackles just love to eat the cat food we leave out for the neighborhood 'stray' cat. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1144159 I just noticed this happening this evening around 7pm CST in the midwest. It seemed kind of eerie. There were power lines around 1 huge sighting, but not the other. I was wondering if this had anything to do with the so called "SUPERMOON" like if it messes with their instincts or something???
Anon User ID: 5179646 United States 11/25/2012 12:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? I saw this in the Central Valley in California just within the past week or so. The starlings (I think) were flying around in several enormous flocks and flying into each other and dipping down to almost head level over the parking lot where I was standing. There were also huge numbers of the same birds on the power lines overhead. It was bizarre. The only other place I've seen anything even reminiscent of this was in the film "The Birds" by Hitchcock. Yikes!
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28448926 Thailand 11/25/2012 12:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Strange bird behavior? Normal OP. You should see the size of the flocks in Europe, millions. Flying back and forth. Their is video out there of this. Quoting: Hickory Thanks. Has anyone who is actually a bird expert (whatever they are called) said anything abotu this? How are we able to dtermine what is normal and what isn't? O. Quoting: Opacus ornithologist = PhD Bird Expert
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