Photo Feature
DIVERSIONARY MURMURATIONS
<p>Hundreds of Rosy Starlings in murmuration use complex flight patterns and diversionary maneuvers to escape a predatory Peregrine Falcon in their midst. Starlings typically use tactics such as flash expansion, blackening, wave event, vacuole, cordon and split, forming a strategy based on the preceding pattern and the method of the falcon’s attack. The photographer spotted the falcon succeed in knocking a few out of the flock into the water below.</p>
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<strong>Photographer: </strong>Manjeet Jadeja<br />
<strong>Location:</strong> Pandad village, Gujarat</p>