Murmurs

Video of a massive starling flock turning and twisting over a river in Ireland has gone viral, and with good reason. Flocking starlings are one of nature’s most extraordinary sights: Just a few hundred birds moving as one is enough to convey a sense of suspended reality, and the flock filmed above the River Shannon contained thousands. What makes possible the uncanny coordination of these murmurations, as starling flocks are so beautifully known?


.

re·mote·ly

riˈmōtlē/

adverb

adverb: remotely

1. 1.

   from a distance; without physical contact.

   "new electronic meters that can be read remotely"
2. 2.

   in the slightest degree.
   
   
   
   
   

   brain waves

   sonar imaging

   incense  smoke

   galaxy mergings

   screens savers

   breath.