Amazing footage of an enormous flock of birds in flight by Sophie Windsor Clive.
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.
Brandon Kelm explains a little of how it works, mostly using terms like “scale-free correlation” and “criticality”, which pretty much sums up that we don’t know a lot about the phenomena.
NetLogo has a nice little Java model showing an attempt at simulating flocking. They give a good description of how there model works.
(via The Dish)