{"id":10646,"date":"2017-04-04T14:44:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10646"},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:45:01","slug":"how-do-flocking-birds-move-in-unison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/04\/how-do-flocking-birds-move-in-unison\/","title":{"rendered":"How do flocking birds move in unison?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t really about the weather, but is very cool nonetheless. \u00a0<em>EarthSky<\/em> has a fascinating video of flocking starlings moving together in movements of incredible grace that appear hypnotic. \u00a0The movements are called a &#8220;murmuration.&#8221; The birds seem to anticipate each others&#8217; movements, leading to waves of movement through the flock. \u00a0But how do they do it? \u00a0You can read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/how-do-flocking-birds-move-in-unison?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=4a9c1098d2-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-4a9c1098d2-393619445&amp;mc_cid=4a9c1098d2&amp;mc_eid=b22da16cce\">here<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/murmuration-flock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10647\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/murmuration-flock-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/murmuration-flock-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/murmuration-flock-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/murmuration-flock-246x138.jpg 246w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/04\/murmuration-flock.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t really about the weather, but is very cool nonetheless. \u00a0EarthSky has a fascinating video of flocking starlings moving together in movements of incredible grace that appear hypnotic. \u00a0The movements are called a &#8220;murmuration.&#8221; The birds seem to anticipate each others&#8217; movements, leading to waves of movement through the flock. \u00a0But how do they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10649,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions\/10649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}