Nov 14 2009Impressive: 300,000 Birds Perform Air Ballet
I have no idea who the hell can tell that's 300,000 birds, but I'm running with it. And by running I mean flying. Just like those birds. Except less graceful. But equally naked! Think of me as like the Eleventh Plague of Egypt, if the Eleventh Plague of Egypt were a naked man standing on the roof flapping his arms. I'm coming for you, Pharoah! *caw caw!*
It's a bird! It's a cloud! It's a bird cloud [yahoobuzz]
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Reader Comments
1. Thornnn - November 15, 2009 12:04 PM
Your like so late with this it was already a yahoo front page but I still love you GW. This is the best web site in the universe.
2. yaksik - November 15, 2009 12:05 PM
a similar display was an awesome beer advert in britain a few years back, still the advert coulda just said the word beer and i woulda jizzed my pants
3. naas - November 15, 2009 12:09 PM
@1 GWs not late with this story, yahoo put it out waay to early. Get your flux capacitor calibrated
4. naas - November 15, 2009 12:11 PM
....at 0.25 I see them forming an erect penis, just sayin
5. JeiCass - November 15, 2009 12:15 PM
Imagine the amount of droppings ensued.
6. dweebiechimp - November 15, 2009 12:19 PM
i am 100% positive i saw an alligator snapping its jaws at around 0:50
7. blake - November 15, 2009 12:21 PM
Those aren't birds.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IT'S THE MONSTER FROM LOST!!!!!!!!!!
8. GigiAUT - November 15, 2009 12:21 PM
Twitter in real life!
9. fuck ip restrictions - November 15, 2009 12:23 PM
that's incredible
i wonder if it's cgi, though...
@6 yes! i thought i was crazy..
10. G-man - November 15, 2009 12:31 PM
Who counted them? I call FAKE!!!
11. Tennist0 - November 15, 2009 12:39 PM
This is SO OLD! I couldn't believe when I saw this under yahoo's yesterday
12. Met4lz - November 15, 2009 1:03 PM
Did you mean "pharaoh"? lol
13. CarlitoS - November 15, 2009 1:27 PM
Fake! Those are no birds, that's Lord Voldemort!
14. miette - November 15, 2009 1:36 PM
penis @ :16
15. DeeplyTroubled - November 15, 2009 2:08 PM
@7 - that's was I was going to say
@8 - that's what I wish I was going to say - that's genius
16. Dishy Dishyington - November 15, 2009 2:23 PM
Back in the day, I used to see Passenger Pigeons doing this all the time.
17. Houmand - November 15, 2009 3:03 PM
It's rather common for birds to do this in Denmark, that there is a perfectly normal thing during autumn when the birds migrate.
It sounds pretty reasonable for there to be 300.000 birds, that's pretty average.
18. Kev - November 15, 2009 3:06 PM
If those birds were 1 dollar bills i would have like... 300,000 dollars! mmmmm dollars.........
19. Dumbass White Guy - November 15, 2009 3:31 PM
@16. Damn, you're old.
And 300,000? Seems like somebody's pumping the numbers. Impressive nonetheless.
DaWG
A resident of America's Hat.©
20. Sepp Krüger - November 15, 2009 4:56 PM
jorgensen you piece of shit, next time get closer, i hardly can see anything.
btw: Imagine the huge pool of birdshit on that meadow.
21. jimmybug - November 15, 2009 5:49 PM
Cloud of evil.
22. JJtoob - November 15, 2009 5:56 PM
I want that as my screensaver.
23. annie - November 15, 2009 7:10 PM
starlings are assholes
24. M_D - November 15, 2009 7:47 PM
come to southern Ontario. that happens a lot
25. N.O.V.A. - November 15, 2009 8:31 PM
this also happens here in northern virginia. even when i'm standing on a side-walk looking up at it, people will just walk past after a quick glance up. who looks at birds?...
26. Annnddyyyy - November 15, 2009 8:56 PM
I think it's actually the lost cloud, but in real life. Birds ARE NOT that cool
27. areno - November 15, 2009 9:41 PM
CHALE cabron el video imaginen que asi se sincronizaran todas las naves de convate de su pàis XD
28. rad to the power of me - November 15, 2009 11:03 PM
Lood up in the sky. It's a bunch of birds, it's an African American transformer, IT'S HELL FOR ANY RECENTLY CLEANED CAR
@4 naas i don't see it....you must hang way to the left...and up and down etc.
29. X-Saint - November 16, 2009 12:50 AM
u think the black eyed peas had to do anything with this!? *hopes somebody gets it*
30. Adam4231 - November 16, 2009 4:46 AM
government so going to use this for nanobot swarms and then were fucked
31. sam123 - November 16, 2009 4:52 AM
Vector the Crocodile anyone?
32. That uncle who did that bad thing we don't speak about - November 16, 2009 8:04 AM
At 0.38 I swear I saw 300,000 birds!!!!!
33. Mr Spin - November 16, 2009 8:55 AM
What are they trying to tell us? Are the birds trying to communicate with us?
34. Closet Nerd - November 16, 2009 10:06 AM
Reminds me of the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
35. naas - November 16, 2009 11:41 AM
@28 depends on where I'm sitting & what direction the things going in
36. emptyaddy - November 16, 2009 12:14 PM
Birds...after watching Matrix Revolutions
37. g moffett - November 16, 2009 2:29 PM
OH thats where jj abrams got the idea for a smoke monster
38. schnar - November 16, 2009 4:12 PM
@28 see @14 spot on bravo
39. random - November 17, 2009 1:49 AM
IT OVER 9000!
40. Frederik - November 17, 2009 2:41 AM
This is definitely not fake, and 300.000 doesn't seem overstated... This happen every spring and autumn in the marshlands of Jutland, Denmark where this video is from. Up to one million birds from all the countries around the baltic gather just after sunset and make the most amazing formations and occasionally when a preying bird attacks it will literally get shot down by birdshit and vommit... We call it "Black Sun" because the birds will fill out the sky and block the sunset.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort_sol_(bird_flock)
41. wes - November 20, 2009 3:41 PM
that's not an air ballet, that's a nemacyst.
-wes-
42. rileymakesmotion - November 23, 2009 1:22 AM
So, what's the point?
:|
I understand that must have taken some time to train them, but what the fuck are they doing?
43. whattheshit - November 23, 2009 8:54 AM
Fox News reported 150 million birds. I only count 299, 998.
44. casanova1234 - November 24, 2009 10:49 AM
dayummmm thts ill but i would never use it like tht picture id be fuckkedd