Might be slightly rose tinted specs but I remember seeing murmurations regularly as a child in the mid eighties and being almost hypnotised watching the display. Now your lucky to you see more than a few dozen at once. The decline of the starling and our native birdlife in general is absolutely shameful.
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Such a shame. The poor bloke was obviously very talented, once upon a time.
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Amazing sight.
It’s not just Starlings either, this was posted yesterday
One. Million. Bramblings. 
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Incredible!
Evidence of Pallas’s Cat found at >5,000m elevation on Mount Everest
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I know cats like to climb but 5000m is taking the piss.
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That’s a mean-looking moggie!
Not sure the local birds are going to be pleased either.
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Very few of them at that altitude.
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Now the cat’s going to be pissed off too.
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Well they do have a reputation for being the angry cat.
Incredibly difficult to find/see and being crepuscular doesn’t help with that. A mate of mine spent a week before he finally saw one in Kazakhstan. Unfortunately he had no such luck with Snow Leopard.
Genuine question: Is this because the air’s getting too thin for them to fly in (plus maybe the oxygen shortage limits their strength) ?
Lack of a food source, mainly.
Some birds can fly much higher than that. Bar-headed Geese, for example, fly over the highest Himalayan peaks from their breeding grounds in Mongolia to Northern India for the winter.
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Check this out from 1.45 for a health and safety masterclass
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Oddly soothing 
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I love it when people confuse engineering with just making stuff. Disappointed that limbs and heads remained attached.
Certainly not guaranteed to stay that way.
And still.
Excuse me while I keep laughing.
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He’s still tweeting like a loon so must have a phone in jail.