In fact, errors aren’t magnified by the birds’ movements, but washed away. The flock shows what physicists call scale-free correlations, which “is like a game of telephone where information ...

Flocks of birds wheeling, swooping and gliding in unison, as if choreographed, are a wonderful sight. The benefit to members of the flock are many including safety from predators, more eyes to ...

Goetze: A large and seemingly nervous flock of red-winged blackbirds happened to fly by my location one afternoon.