european starlings

back bird: "What's that in your navel?" middle bird: "What? Where? ... oooh, that *is* strange." front bird: "OMG! I can't even look!"

Watch out behind you!

Click on my dropbox link to see what the movement looks like (see if you can find the raptor flying into them): https://www.dropbox.com/s/vvlt21p9rool140/Blackbirdsville.mp4?dl=0

In this photo see if you can distinguish a Common Grackle from a Eurpoean Starling. Click on my dropbox link to see what the movement looks like (see if you can find the raptor flying into them): https://www.dropbox.com/s/vvlt21p9rool140/Blackbirdsville.mp4?dl=0

On one small field not far from my house one million birds are staging their southern migration. Click on my dropbox link to see what the movement looks like (see if you can find the raptor flying into them): https://www.dropbox.com/s/vvlt21p9rool140/Blackbirdsville.mp4?dl=0

I can't get enough of these amazing murmurations of starlings along with the Cooper's Hawks and RTHs flying in and out of the same tasty fields.

of icterids (blackbirds) in this photo; answer is below. Also, check out my video (change to 480p) of the same at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPYdO133xTg

for my video of the same check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPYdO133xTg

I saw this herd way out in a field and didn't think that I would get any closer until I came across a dirt road that took me, my wife and granddaughter right into the middle of a herd of 200 of these fellows. Just before hightailing it out of there for fear of getting crushed, I fired off this...

This dozen Starlings are hitching a ride through the grass for a better view of the herd of 200 Bison. America has no Buffalo, just Bison.