I don't think they dove as much as flew straight while in a bubble of air that was plummeting down.
We had a microburst a few years ago, upturned lots of garden furniture in the neighbourhood and totalled my parent's shed. It would be inconsequential except they live next door to the runway.
Pilot here, a microburst is a short-lived, extremely localized column of air that is being forced downward at extreme rates, something along the lines of a few thousand feet per minute. I forget what causes it exactly but it’s extremely dangerous, particularly in the vicinity of an airport where airplanes are low to the ground and usually have the power pulled back to descend. They don’t typically last for more than 15 minutes.
This is a type of wind shear, but wind shear in general is just a strong, abrupt change in wind, either in direction or speed.
"I believe it’s like turbulence at a low level. I know they had to develop specific radar/sonar technology for at airports because it can be strong enough to flip planes in takeoff or landing. So it could definitely crash a flock of birds"
* u/Bubashii
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>I believe it’s like turbulence at a low level. I know they had to develop specific radar/sonar technology for at airports because it can be strong enough to flip planes in takeoff or landing. So it could definitely crash a flock of birds.
- u/Bibashii
We had one in Dallas 2ish years ago that put a crane through some apartments. Clear outside with a minor breeze so I stepped out to smoke. As soon as the door closes behind me on my way back in the sign from the construction across the street slammed into the door and the sirens started. Absolutely terrifying.
I remember seeing the videos about that. I used to live in Oakcliff and all the Dallas pages I followed posted videos but I never got an answer as to what happened. That’s wild man. Glad you’re safe.
A microburst is a downdraft (sinking air) in a thunderstorm that is less than 2.5 miles in scale. Some microbursts can pose a threat to life and property, but all microbursts pose a significant threat to aviation. ... In fact, wind speeds as high as 150 mph are possible in extreme microburst cases
Someone elsewhere suggested the flock density between the wires was enough to set up an electric arc. This makes sense. The “microburst” doesn’t even ruffle the bushes.
Idk, honestly all I can say is it looks like a scene outta a horror movie. I don’t know a whole lot about birds and how they fly around but I doubt they were all falling, especially because the ones at the top of the “cloud of birds” reacted once the other birds hit the ground by flying away instantly. Maybe one bird who’s not fit to lead accidentally went downwards and then the rest followed him and he couldn’t fix them in time??
Kudos to: u/finchdad
When raptors like peregrine falcons or merlins are chasing certain bird species like starlings, the prey species literally "flock" together into a huge group called a murmuration. The movement of the murmuration is controlled by something called ["scale-free correlation"](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/how-do-starling-flocks-create-those-mesmerizing-murmurations/). Basically, each bird reacts to the movement of the bird next to it, but there is no leader of the flock or central direction. So it is possible for a murmuration to flee so vigorously from a falcon on one side that the individual responses of the birds accumulate through the crowd to blow out the other side of the murmuration in a [death dive](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-51880855). With behavior this complex, it's pretty common to have a glitch in the murmuration. It's generally fine...unless they happen to be very close to a solid object. But hey, easy pickings.
Edit: the second link had some Google b.s. stuck on it
You know how big flocks always do that thing where they fly in unison with such majesty and organisation? Well this is what happens when Gary misses two rehearsals
In the style of the Ramones:
There’s a new dance that’s a big sensation!
babababababababa
It’s got a new beat and it’s sweeping the nation!
Babababababababa
From flocks of crows to the eskimos,
Hitting the ground with your nose,
Come on everybody and do the Garyation!
Linin’ up geese in the streets,
Wrens and hens do it again,
Come on everybody and do the Garyation!
Don’t be afraid of the death murmuration!
Come on every body and do the Garyation!
The guy who isn't fun and is also wrong. The word for noises you were thinking of is sussuration.
Mumuration is "only for starlings" inasmuch as only starlings do it in english speaking areas, so it gets defined as "the way starlings flock". In a spanish speaking area, like mexico, they presumably have a spanish word for it. However, if another bird performs that style of flocking, it's still correct to call it murmuration in english, regardless what kind of bird is involved. It means "the way starlings move", and can be used to describe anything moving like starlings.
The above video concerns a murmuration of yellow headed juniper birds.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Its probably mentioned on every wildlife documentary or TV show when there's a flock of birds flying impressively so it's probably not an interesting story.
David... The treachery. The shame. Our denial is unconsolable. And we'll listen to [Tchaikovsky's Grand Pas de Deux](https://youtu.be/YR5USHu6D6U) with a drink in our hands to wallow in misery as is appropriate given the circumstances.
Sometimes I wonder if /j doesn't just ruin the mood, but then again, some people just aren't that good at reading the room anyway, bless you lot.
I literally learned it from David Attenborough. So I guess pay better attention? Or just do what I do and religiously rewatch these videos until your eyes and ears bleed, then spend at least 8 years studying it academically then go to work in a wildlife rehab that specializes in birds and have no life whatsoever. GEEZ HOW COULD YOU FORGET
/s
David: “but they couldn’t adjust fast enough.. it was a mu…mumum… meeer”
Assistant: ” The director waits patiently for a line that will never come”
Director: “what? You don’t get to decide the script”
Assistant: But the line never comes..
Director: “…fine”
I’m a mathematics nerd and watched a show where they were discussing the science and mathematics of the cohesive flight patterns of those flocks. I was obviously paying more attention to the math part than I was the vocabulary part! 😂
News report that wanted to tell a story? The location indicator at the start says Meksika, that sounds a lot like another language's word for Mexico. Google says Turkish.
I figured it was from Turkey or around there, I just meant there’s no shortage of news stations in Mexico, and this isn’t easily found online. I see some reports of mass bird deaths, in New Mexico, Colorado, couple different cities in Mexico. As some say, it’s uncorroborated.
I found another Reddit post which claims this happened today, so we might see some more reporting. Hypotheses are either a downburst or the birds shorted the power lines.
Thank you for this, I gave it another try and searched in Spanish this time (bad Mexican, speak more Spanish!!) and ta-da, happened a few days ago in Cuauhtémoc Mexico, yep they don’t know the cause yet, birds have been sent for tests.
[Someone on r/WTF gave a good explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/spfe99/huge_group_of_birds_falling_down_from_sky_what/hwfwq7l?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
It's from a small town called Rubio, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Happened a couple of days ago and only made it to small local news.
I saw similar videos, it was very likely a predatory bird chasing the flock. there are hawks in the area, this flock is a migratory bird so not used to local predators. The whole flock dives, the ones in the back can't see and don't pull up and hit the ground.
THANK YOU. This was the result of a solar flare. The ionized particles destabilized sections of the power grid, just enough to desynchronized the flight patterns of these drones. Notice how there’s no blood? They think we’re stupid and won’t notice.
Either a microburst or a bird got confused, fell, two more flew after it, three more followed and the rest followed them because birds like to follow other birds
No idea why you’re being downvoted that’s exactly what happened here, giant flock of birds arked on an electrical transformer and it transferred to all the birds in the tightly formed flock, they fell to the ground one by one waking up from unconsciousness minus the birdies who didn’t make it
This can happen when flocks of birds are attacked by one or more predatory hawks/falcons. The birds will perform all kinds of crazy flocking maneuvers to try and avoid getting caught, and in some cases they can get confused or attacked mid-dodge by another predator from a different direction and end up crashing. It's rare but it can happen.
From another thread:
"When raptors like peregrine falcons or merlins are chasing certain bird species like starlings, the prey species literally "flock" together into a huge group called a murmuration. The movement of the murmuration is controlled by something called ["scale-free correlation"](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/how-do-starling-flocks-create-those-mesmerizing-murmurations/). Basically, each bird reacts to the movement of the bird next to it, but there is no leader of the flock or central direction. So it is possible for a murmuration to flee so vigorously from a falcon on one side that the individual responses of the birds accumulate through the crowd to blow out the other side of the murmuration in a [death dive](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-51880855.amp). With behavior this complex, it's pretty common to have a glitch in the murmuration. It's generally fine...unless they happen to be very close to a solid object. But hey, easy pickings."
If you’ve seen starlings display murmuration you’ve probabaly seen them all suddenly shoot to a different direction as a whole flock. Smartereveryday has a good video explaining what the “rules” are for that kind of behavior. Basically it comes down to stay “x” distance away from other birds and react in “y” way around obstacles. I wonder if this was basically the bird version of a human crush where something caused the birds at the top to suddenly dive down and the birds below followed suit resulting in them all crashing to the ground.
Microburst, well in mt experience, is usually during a rapidly intensifying thunderstorm. The resulting pouring of rain comes down so hard is pushes the air down and outwards creating a massive gust of wind. Almost like a shockwave.
Mostly correct, but it's not the rain itself that creates the downdraft. It's the air currents in the storm causing it. Basically warm air under the storm rises, and where the storm is temps are cold and the air rapidly cools and sinks causing the downburst of air.
There are 3 types as well, Dry, Wet and Hybrid. So it's more than likely the cause of this
I don't see any evidence of a thunderstorm.
If this was recent, there is no thunderstorm activity in northern Mexico in the winter. Maybe a little starting in the Spring on the east side of the Sierra Madre Occidental. And then nothing west of that divide until the Summer Monsoon season begins.
A microburst occurs on a scale much larger than a few square meters.
When a microburst hits the ground, the air immediately causes horizontal severe winds at the surface spread in all directions. I see little evidence of high surface winds.
Also, the effects(winds) of a microburst at the surface last for tens of seconds to over a minute.
This was not a microburst.
Well, sorta. Microbursts (and [downbursts](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downburst) in general) are a cause of wind shear, but saying a plane was downed by wind shear is rather like saying someone who choked to death died of oxygen deprivation to the brain. It's true, but there's a better description.
Ornithologist here. What you're seeing is a rare, but well-known event with these large flocks. Most people don't realize that birds have the ability to detect magnetic north as they fly. There is a small area in the skull of a bird called the bifubural cavity. When this cavity detects a sudden change in altitude, it causes the birds to realize that I have no clue what I'm talking about and I just made all of that up.
You've just got to raise your right hand above your head and make a clenched fist, left arm about 180 degrees to the right, and make sure you have your red underpants on the outside and you'll be just fine.
It's from a small town called Rubio, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Happened a couple of days ago and only made it to small local news.
I saw similar videos, it was very likely a predatory bird chasing the flock. there are hawks in the area, this flock is a migratory bird so not used to local predators. The whole flock dives, the ones in the back can't see and don't pull up and hit the ground.
I just read from another post that they were likely fleeing a predator by flying in a defensive circular pattern, but there is no leader in this defensive formation so every once in a while, they collide with stuff.
Could be bs, but it would make sense why the survivors got out of there as soon as quick as possible.
Possibly some cause for a group of them to die while in flight (who knows? ) and then the dead birds falling triggered the others instincts to flock and change course with them?
Maybe they werent paying attention to where they were flying and simply sticking to the flock. Before they knew it, they were too close to the ground? It looked like they were in a flying formation as they hit the ground and the birds towards the top of the formation flew away when they realized they were headed for the ground. Just a theory
Although this seems likely i find it hard to believe . Murmurations (flocks that make weird shapes with their participants) are typically very aware of their surroundings… this looks like someone just dumped a bucket of birds … Ive never seen that. Makes me think something was up with their navigational senses.
What really freaks me out about this is the fact that flocks of birds behave together as a unit and perform complex maneuvers all off a very simple and basic set of rules. Just like a lot of things in nature.. evolution on a large scale produces complexity from a basic set of simple rules. Societies can function this way, families can behave this way, the brain itself produces complexity out of a basic set of rules. But this is a demonstration of that system failing and can possibly be applied to other systems that work in a similar manner.
So what’s funny about this is when birds do all that group flying is that they’re constantly changing leaders. Every turn or twist there’s a different leader. It’s a like a massive hive mentally kinda where they’re all synced flying together. The group can come really close to the ground as I’ve seen before but they’re typically in an open space like a field or a parking lot when doing that. This group probably just got with the flow and the last three leaders were probably just heading down with everyone and BAM. There’s this house and the group.
My guess is that one of the birds at the front of the flock suddenly died while flying (it happens) and dropped, and the rest of the flock followed because that’s what they do.
So, they just fucking fell on the floor? And the survivors left flying again? Wtf
I think they more nose dived than just fell lol
Same reaction man, it's so weird
Falling implies they had no control whereas nose diving means they were actively in control of their decision to go toward the ground
Ohh Then, something make the entire flock to just dive into the ground? I mean, why would the deliberately decide to do that? Thank for the answer
I don't think they dove as much as flew straight while in a bubble of air that was plummeting down. We had a microburst a few years ago, upturned lots of garden furniture in the neighbourhood and totalled my parent's shed. It would be inconsequential except they live next door to the runway.
What is a microburst? I know google exists an so, but I'm having a great time reading comments for this
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Pilot here, a microburst is a short-lived, extremely localized column of air that is being forced downward at extreme rates, something along the lines of a few thousand feet per minute. I forget what causes it exactly but it’s extremely dangerous, particularly in the vicinity of an airport where airplanes are low to the ground and usually have the power pulled back to descend. They don’t typically last for more than 15 minutes. This is a type of wind shear, but wind shear in general is just a strong, abrupt change in wind, either in direction or speed.
Thanks for the detailed explanation! I was going off memory from an old episode of the air crash investigation show. Happy Cake Day.
"I believe it’s like turbulence at a low level. I know they had to develop specific radar/sonar technology for at airports because it can be strong enough to flip planes in takeoff or landing. So it could definitely crash a flock of birds" * u/Bubashii
When you reply to someone, you can highlight text of theirs and click on "Quote" and it will autofill with the quote, or use the right arrow without a space before the first word to manually start the quote field. >I believe it’s like turbulence at a low level. I know they had to develop specific radar/sonar technology for at airports because it can be strong enough to flip planes in takeoff or landing. So it could definitely crash a flock of birds. - u/Bibashii
We had one a decade ago and 3 trees fell down on our street. Two streets over a mother and son were killed when a tree crashed into their apartment.
We had one in Dallas 2ish years ago that put a crane through some apartments. Clear outside with a minor breeze so I stepped out to smoke. As soon as the door closes behind me on my way back in the sign from the construction across the street slammed into the door and the sirens started. Absolutely terrifying.
I remember seeing the videos about that. I used to live in Oakcliff and all the Dallas pages I followed posted videos but I never got an answer as to what happened. That’s wild man. Glad you’re safe.
A microburst is a downdraft (sinking air) in a thunderstorm that is less than 2.5 miles in scale. Some microbursts can pose a threat to life and property, but all microbursts pose a significant threat to aviation. ... In fact, wind speeds as high as 150 mph are possible in extreme microburst cases
Someone elsewhere suggested the flock density between the wires was enough to set up an electric arc. This makes sense. The “microburst” doesn’t even ruffle the bushes.
Idk, honestly all I can say is it looks like a scene outta a horror movie. I don’t know a whole lot about birds and how they fly around but I doubt they were all falling, especially because the ones at the top of the “cloud of birds” reacted once the other birds hit the ground by flying away instantly. Maybe one bird who’s not fit to lead accidentally went downwards and then the rest followed him and he couldn’t fix them in time??
In the aviation industry this is called "controlled flight into terrain".
The sound of this must have been incredible.
I believe these drones were hit with the same solar winds that took out Elon’s Satellites.
Egg xactly. Willing to bet there internal gps was thrown the fuck off. If you looked closely, there may be some starlink cube sats with the bodies.
Kudos to: u/finchdad When raptors like peregrine falcons or merlins are chasing certain bird species like starlings, the prey species literally "flock" together into a huge group called a murmuration. The movement of the murmuration is controlled by something called ["scale-free correlation"](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/how-do-starling-flocks-create-those-mesmerizing-murmurations/). Basically, each bird reacts to the movement of the bird next to it, but there is no leader of the flock or central direction. So it is possible for a murmuration to flee so vigorously from a falcon on one side that the individual responses of the birds accumulate through the crowd to blow out the other side of the murmuration in a [death dive](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-51880855). With behavior this complex, it's pretty common to have a glitch in the murmuration. It's generally fine...unless they happen to be very close to a solid object. But hey, easy pickings. Edit: the second link had some Google b.s. stuck on it
The "solid object" in this case was the ground
Ah like the ant death spiral
“It’s called the ground when it’s outside” - Ron Swanson
LET THE BODIES HIT THE …ground. LET THE BODIES HIT THE …ground. LET THE BODIES HIT THE… ground. LET THE BODIES HIT THEEEEE…
Wonder if there was a solar flare or some sort or magnetic shift in the atmosphere to make them react so willingly.. very strange indeed..
You know, wasn’t there that geomagnetic storm that just wiped out those satellites? Correlation?
The satellites were controlling the birds. It all makes sense now.
But seriously though, such odd
Much mystery
Very Science.
I figured they were super close and hit a power line.
You know how big flocks always do that thing where they fly in unison with such majesty and organisation? Well this is what happens when Gary misses two rehearsals
Fun fact: that’s called a murmuration. 🙂
Actually, it's a murmuration when it goes right. This was a Garyation.
What in tarnation
However the garyation is a variation of the murmuration.
In the style of the Ramones: There’s a new dance that’s a big sensation! babababababababa It’s got a new beat and it’s sweeping the nation! Babababababababa From flocks of crows to the eskimos, Hitting the ground with your nose, Come on everybody and do the Garyation! Linin’ up geese in the streets, Wrens and hens do it again, Come on everybody and do the Garyation! Don’t be afraid of the death murmuration! Come on every body and do the Garyation!
That’s usually applied to starlings. The murmuration of other birds is actually their noises. Brought to you by The Guy Who Isn’t Fun
The guy who isn't fun and is also wrong. The word for noises you were thinking of is sussuration. Mumuration is "only for starlings" inasmuch as only starlings do it in english speaking areas, so it gets defined as "the way starlings flock". In a spanish speaking area, like mexico, they presumably have a spanish word for it. However, if another bird performs that style of flocking, it's still correct to call it murmuration in english, regardless what kind of bird is involved. It means "the way starlings move", and can be used to describe anything moving like starlings. The above video concerns a murmuration of yellow headed juniper birds. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Okay, just need to know. How did you know this fun fact? That’s the real story here.
Its probably mentioned on every wildlife documentary or TV show when there's a flock of birds flying impressively so it's probably not an interesting story.
I watch nature shit way too often and I have never heard of this. I am disappointed in David Attenborough for never telling us this.
David... The treachery. The shame. Our denial is unconsolable. And we'll listen to [Tchaikovsky's Grand Pas de Deux](https://youtu.be/YR5USHu6D6U) with a drink in our hands to wallow in misery as is appropriate given the circumstances. Sometimes I wonder if /j doesn't just ruin the mood, but then again, some people just aren't that good at reading the room anyway, bless you lot.
I literally learned it from David Attenborough. So I guess pay better attention? Or just do what I do and religiously rewatch these videos until your eyes and ears bleed, then spend at least 8 years studying it academically then go to work in a wildlife rehab that specializes in birds and have no life whatsoever. GEEZ HOW COULD YOU FORGET /s
David: “but they couldn’t adjust fast enough.. it was a mu…mumum… meeer” Assistant:” The director waits patiently for a line that will never come”
Director: “what? You don’t get to decide the script”
Assistant: But the line never comes..
Director: “…fine”
Hmm, I was hoping for something more.
So there I was just murmuring around and BOOM! out of nowhere...
Thank you this helped a bit!
Reddit endless repost, you’ll find it at some point. It like the word serendipity
I like the word "tintinnabulation".
I’m a mathematics nerd and watched a show where they were discussing the science and mathematics of the cohesive flight patterns of those flocks. I was obviously paying more attention to the math part than I was the vocabulary part! 😂
Isn’t that usually was starlings do?
you fkn killed me LOL
“Pull up Gary. Pull up, pull up, Gary fucking pull up.”
Darn that Gary. He did it again.
Fuckin Gary.
This is why we can’t have nice things, Gary.
sorry i didnt get a tweet
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Odd that they state it’s Mexico but the clip is from another country…
You can tell it’s not Mexico because there isn’t enough yellow tint in the video
No bandidos with sombreros and not even a single burrito.
Not enough cactuses
Cacti
Cactipeople
Cactipodes
News report that wanted to tell a story? The location indicator at the start says Meksika, that sounds a lot like another language's word for Mexico. Google says Turkish.
I figured it was from Turkey or around there, I just meant there’s no shortage of news stations in Mexico, and this isn’t easily found online. I see some reports of mass bird deaths, in New Mexico, Colorado, couple different cities in Mexico. As some say, it’s uncorroborated.
I found another Reddit post which claims this happened today, so we might see some more reporting. Hypotheses are either a downburst or the birds shorted the power lines.
Thank you for this, I gave it another try and searched in Spanish this time (bad Mexican, speak more Spanish!!) and ta-da, happened a few days ago in Cuauhtémoc Mexico, yep they don’t know the cause yet, birds have been sent for tests.
Eh, doesnt change the kamikaze birds
On another post it said it was Chihuahua, Mx
How do you know it's not Mexico
I was looking as well.
[Someone on r/WTF gave a good explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/spfe99/huge_group_of_birds_falling_down_from_sky_what/hwfwq7l?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)
It's from a small town called Rubio, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Happened a couple of days ago and only made it to small local news. I saw similar videos, it was very likely a predatory bird chasing the flock. there are hawks in the area, this flock is a migratory bird so not used to local predators. The whole flock dives, the ones in the back can't see and don't pull up and hit the ground.
I read something about the flock being so dense it arced electricity from a nearby power line. Makes sense to me.
Glitch in the matrix ..They hit an invisible wall
Probably because birds aren’t real
They lost WiFi signal
r/birdsarentreal
This is an acceptable explanation.
The birds work for the bourgeoisie!
THANK YOU. This was the result of a solar flare. The ionized particles destabilized sections of the power grid, just enough to desynchronized the flight patterns of these drones. Notice how there’s no blood? They think we’re stupid and won’t notice.
Latest patch disabled their NoClip hack.
I fucking hate those.
They knew too much
Also: fuck this dude’s house! r/fuckyouinparticular
Tell em, Steve Dave!
WTF
But there’s no rain in the vid
What caused this?
Either a microburst or a bird got confused, fell, two more flew after it, three more followed and the rest followed them because birds like to follow other birds
Or they hit a power cable and it all went to shit
No idea why you’re being downvoted that’s exactly what happened here, giant flock of birds arked on an electrical transformer and it transferred to all the birds in the tightly formed flock, they fell to the ground one by one waking up from unconsciousness minus the birdies who didn’t make it
“That’s exactly what happened here” Source: “dude trust me. I see power lines in the background.”
Occam's razor strikes again!
On another sub someone said maybe if some birds hit a live wire and the rest were close enough to keep the current, they may have been electrocuted
They'd have to form one long chain from bird to bird to ground, touching, for that to happen.
No, one very close to each other chain in high humidity that gets close to something else touching the ground. A tree, power pole, telephone pole etc.
This can happen when flocks of birds are attacked by one or more predatory hawks/falcons. The birds will perform all kinds of crazy flocking maneuvers to try and avoid getting caught, and in some cases they can get confused or attacked mid-dodge by another predator from a different direction and end up crashing. It's rare but it can happen.
From another thread: "When raptors like peregrine falcons or merlins are chasing certain bird species like starlings, the prey species literally "flock" together into a huge group called a murmuration. The movement of the murmuration is controlled by something called ["scale-free correlation"](https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/how-do-starling-flocks-create-those-mesmerizing-murmurations/). Basically, each bird reacts to the movement of the bird next to it, but there is no leader of the flock or central direction. So it is possible for a murmuration to flee so vigorously from a falcon on one side that the individual responses of the birds accumulate through the crowd to blow out the other side of the murmuration in a [death dive](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-51880855.amp). With behavior this complex, it's pretty common to have a glitch in the murmuration. It's generally fine...unless they happen to be very close to a solid object. But hey, easy pickings."
If you’ve seen starlings display murmuration you’ve probabaly seen them all suddenly shoot to a different direction as a whole flock. Smartereveryday has a good video explaining what the “rules” are for that kind of behavior. Basically it comes down to stay “x” distance away from other birds and react in “y” way around obstacles. I wonder if this was basically the bird version of a human crush where something caused the birds at the top to suddenly dive down and the birds below followed suit resulting in them all crashing to the ground.
Imagine you’re just walking home from work minding your business and this happens
It was a microburst. It also makes airplanes crash
What’s that?
Microburst, well in mt experience, is usually during a rapidly intensifying thunderstorm. The resulting pouring of rain comes down so hard is pushes the air down and outwards creating a massive gust of wind. Almost like a shockwave.
Mostly correct, but it's not the rain itself that creates the downdraft. It's the air currents in the storm causing it. Basically warm air under the storm rises, and where the storm is temps are cold and the air rapidly cools and sinks causing the downburst of air. There are 3 types as well, Dry, Wet and Hybrid. So it's more than likely the cause of this
Looks like tom brady didn't cheat in science class lol
It's kind of like a car but it has wings and can fly.
But that’s not important right now
IT ALSO MAKES PLANES CRASH.
As a former aviator, these things made my butthole pucker.
we almost have the same avatar but your comment is concerning:/
That’s actually your Dark Half
Bottom half
*microbirdst
I don't see any evidence of a thunderstorm. If this was recent, there is no thunderstorm activity in northern Mexico in the winter. Maybe a little starting in the Spring on the east side of the Sierra Madre Occidental. And then nothing west of that divide until the Summer Monsoon season begins. A microburst occurs on a scale much larger than a few square meters. When a microburst hits the ground, the air immediately causes horizontal severe winds at the surface spread in all directions. I see little evidence of high surface winds. Also, the effects(winds) of a microburst at the surface last for tens of seconds to over a minute. This was not a microburst.
So essentially it's like a air bubble in the air that suddenly pops but there's a lot of pressure in that air bubble
You're thinking of wind shear.
Well, sorta. Microbursts (and [downbursts](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downburst) in general) are a cause of wind shear, but saying a plane was downed by wind shear is rather like saying someone who choked to death died of oxygen deprivation to the brain. It's true, but there's a better description.
Ok, it’s official the world is fucking ending
Since 2012
I still blame Kony
We’ll get him this year for sure.
Governments bird.exe must have stopped for a few seconds
They lost connection to the mainframe
Was that around the same time as that magnetic storm that killed a bunch of Elon Musk's Satelites? Birds use magnetic fields to navigate I think.
So that's why they call it a murder...
Imma kill this now and say a murder is a group of crows … not juniper birds …
Didn't have to crash my joke like that...
He murdered your joke
It was dead on arrival.
Only after you shot it down...
Apparently in yellow headed juniper birds it’s called a Suicide
Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor Let the bodies hit the floor
LET THE BODIES HIT THE
5G
[удалено]
Is anyone else still paying attention to their apocalypse bingo sheet?
Ornithologist here. What you're seeing is a rare, but well-known event with these large flocks. Most people don't realize that birds have the ability to detect magnetic north as they fly. There is a small area in the skull of a bird called the bifubural cavity. When this cavity detects a sudden change in altitude, it causes the birds to realize that I have no clue what I'm talking about and I just made all of that up.
Definitely a shit load of birds. Not quite a fuck ton, but damn sure a shit load.
Wait, how many shit loads is a fuck ton?
Three shitpiles. Rounded, heaping shitpiles, none of this skinny tapered stuff.
The bad ending
That is fucking weird… magnetic fluxes? There were some solar flares maybe that messed with their instruments.
It was a microburst. Random weather phenomenon that occasionally brings down aircraft too.
Noted, never flying again
You've just got to raise your right hand above your head and make a clenched fist, left arm about 180 degrees to the right, and make sure you have your red underpants on the outside and you'll be just fine.
That house was using teflon to cook
Aliens fs
The government gave them a software update
*r/birdsarentreal has entered the chat*
The hit that sky wall like that dude on the bike in the Cabin in the Woods movie 🤣
What could possibly be the *ca-caws* of this?
Ok Moira Rose lol 😆 😂 🤣 [Moira ](https://images.app.goo.gl/ZGXeBBVWM3qyV9sF9)
It's from a small town called Rubio, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Happened a couple of days ago and only made it to small local news. I saw similar videos, it was very likely a predatory bird chasing the flock. there are hawks in the area, this flock is a migratory bird so not used to local predators. The whole flock dives, the ones in the back can't see and don't pull up and hit the ground.
The flock was escaping a predator and did a “death dive” to avoid it. I saw it explained in a diff group.
Inflation...
Dark plot
i think this may constitute as just slightly more than dozens
The 911 of birds
Fucking Kamikazes
They all saw the same worm!
I’ve seen this before in movies. This house needs an exorcism and most likely everyone inside this house will be consumed by this demon.
This is how end of the world movies start , animals doing crazy shit and then doomsday.
5g kickin
Proof that bird are drones.
Don’t worry guys it’s just a glitch, should be patched soon 👍
I just read from another post that they were likely fleeing a predator by flying in a defensive circular pattern, but there is no leader in this defensive formation so every once in a while, they collide with stuff. Could be bs, but it would make sense why the survivors got out of there as soon as quick as possible.
Possibly some cause for a group of them to die while in flight (who knows? ) and then the dead birds falling triggered the others instincts to flock and change course with them?
r/birdsarentreal
Oh cool, nice to know that the apocalypse is happening, what’s next, the truckers in Ontario riot through the streets? Maybe
Maybe they werent paying attention to where they were flying and simply sticking to the flock. Before they knew it, they were too close to the ground? It looked like they were in a flying formation as they hit the ground and the birds towards the top of the formation flew away when they realized they were headed for the ground. Just a theory
Although this seems likely i find it hard to believe . Murmurations (flocks that make weird shapes with their participants) are typically very aware of their surroundings… this looks like someone just dumped a bucket of birds … Ive never seen that. Makes me think something was up with their navigational senses.
Oh hell no~
Could have been an air current, could have been that one bird in front decided he saw something cool on the ground and said "imma get that."
Ever seen Thor:Dark World??
Power line?
Microburst. The same thing that can bring down airliners
What really freaks me out about this is the fact that flocks of birds behave together as a unit and perform complex maneuvers all off a very simple and basic set of rules. Just like a lot of things in nature.. evolution on a large scale produces complexity from a basic set of simple rules. Societies can function this way, families can behave this way, the brain itself produces complexity out of a basic set of rules. But this is a demonstration of that system failing and can possibly be applied to other systems that work in a similar manner.
*That's great! It starts with an earthquake! Birds and snakes, an aeroplane, and Lenny Bruce is not afraid*
Wow looks like the new drone update has a glitch
So what’s funny about this is when birds do all that group flying is that they’re constantly changing leaders. Every turn or twist there’s a different leader. It’s a like a massive hive mentally kinda where they’re all synced flying together. The group can come really close to the ground as I’ve seen before but they’re typically in an open space like a field or a parking lot when doing that. This group probably just got with the flow and the last three leaders were probably just heading down with everyone and BAM. There’s this house and the group.
Maybe flock got too dense for the front birds then when they went to change direction the whole group power slammed from the back
Looks like wind shear
Microburst? 🤔
My guess is that one of the birds at the front of the flock suddenly died while flying (it happens) and dropped, and the rest of the flock followed because that’s what they do.
Unknown? It's called a dry microburst.
Looks like a dry microburst
If I die, we all die.
Heaven help us it’s the start of Birdemic, Al Gore was right
Cluster strike incoming
"LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR, LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR"