Hundreds of thousands of starlings flooded the sky in the French countryside

• Hundreds of thousands of starlings flooded the sky in the French countryside

The inhabitants of a small village in France have witnessed some incredible invasion of starlings and dances, or as scientists call it, murmuratsii. Hundreds of thousands of birds flying over a settlement farms, grouped, and forming one living cloud, moving as one big organism.

In the photos you can see that starlings are so many that do not see a tractor, which is trying to cross the field. A flock of birds is almost completely blocking his vision.

The starlings are common in Europe, they can be seen almost everywhere, except, perhaps, some of the highest parts of the Scottish Highlands. Starlings are most numerous in the South of England. This is one of the most common garden birds in winter, huge nest of starlings can be found in the fields, reeds and the city center.

Murmuratsiya starlings - a natural phenomenon, when hundreds of thousands of birds form a huge pack that moves and constantly changes shape, then compressing, then clenched. Until now, this phenomenon is little known. Some scientists believe that this kind of protection from predators, because in such a huge flock chance of survival is greatly increased.