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that's some crazy ass birds XD

Interesting video; shame about the unnecessary background 'commentary'...

we need someone who knows about birds to make an insightful comment on this

BIRDS COOL

intresting how the birds are black...

don't mind my insaine brother, but it's a pretty COOL video (cool birds)

Strange... something edible for them in the tree perhaps?

Its actually a bunch of frat birds. They doing something similar to going for the record of fitting as many people possible into a phonebooth.

yo brother at least i can spell insane.

hey look I can do that too

aren't I cool?

I know I'm not the only one who found it hilarious that all those birds made the tree actually sag.

thats the craziest thing i've ever seen

i was up in a tree once and this happened. the birds tried to kill me i'm pretty sure. they took my pants and flew away. i found the pants seven years later in colorado. isn't that weird?

Wierd birdies :P

det er helt normalt for homo-fugle.

Obviously there's something in that tree that atracts the birds. Since i'm not an expert and i can't realy see what kind of birds are there, i can't make any gueses what's in that tree. But such happenings are realy interesting... One bird might go "insane" but a whole bunch of them?

HAHA! That was sooo cool! =D

Oh, and by the way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlings

I think these birds flock near sunset to find a place to sleep, they choose a "leader" and everybody follows it. This "leader" was probably trying to find shelter for the night in a tree with leaves, but it seems that the tree was just too small for this crazy amount of birds. It was probably a newbie leader or an unexpected overwhelming number of birds that joined in. That's my two cents, your guess is as good as mine :p I do know they all follow one bird for a fact though.

During spring in Denmark, at approximately half an hour before sunset, flocks of more than a million European starlings gather from all corners to join in incredible formations. This phenomenon is called Black Sun and can be witnessed in early spring throughout the marshlands of western Denmark, from March through to the middle of April.

...also seen similar, in just one tree as well, down by our NZ lake, but 7 or 8 times..starlings

It's a least not a sign... But it was weird, though.

"It was probably a newbie leader or an unexpected overwhelming number of birds that joined in." LMAO nuub

These birds each have to stay the same distance apart from one another while flying. If startled one may fly away and another may follow, causing the wone following that one to follow and so on. Since there was such a large flock, many tried to land on the tree to rest and while it filled up some fell causing them all to try to restablish the distance.

Never seen anything like it. Obviously reminds me of Alfred Hitchcocks Birds.

i love it its so funky but i dont belive trees4sum bout the pants thing

From what I've read, flocks of birds don't have "leaders." Rather, they collectively have "swarm intelligence." This article talks about it; it covers bees and ants first, but on page three talks about the flocking of birds: http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0707/feature5/ One quote: "The birds don't have a leader. No pigeon is telling the others what to do. Instead, they're each paying close attention to the pigeons next to them, each bird following simple rules as they wheel across the sky. These rules add up to another kind of swarm intelligence—one that has less to do with making decisions than with precisely coordinating movement." I don't know anything about starlings, but I imagine they're no different. Hope that helps! And by the way, very cool video.

It makes me fel good to see intellegent commentary for a change. I've seen the starlings gather in large numbers, covering acres of land, but never trying to land in the same tree. Don't know why they do it. Great video.