Thursday, July 26, 2012

Amazing Birds "Air Show" in Scotland

In the Scottish town of Gretna Green, from late autumn to early spring you can watch the amazing bird "air show". During the annual migration to wintering in Scotland, European starlings fly (sturnus vulgaris), driven by the frost from their homes in Russia and Scandinavia. Soaring, flocks of these birds, like great black clouds in the sky, forming bizarre shapes.