Amazing tail spread! I need to watch more slo-mo videos to figure out what's going on with birds taking off (landing seems a bit more intuitive to me somehow). Thanks for posting!
Starlings are friends of the grain farmer. They consume HUGE amounts of insects which feed on crops. And they are a so-called 'invasive species' just like the snakehead, and the walking catfish, and the python. Nature will always balance itself, no matter how much mischief man does in his selfish acts.
The video is wonderful - the dammned commercial i can´t klick away is not. I am very sorry for this comment but your amazing ultraslo videos are the best i know in the tube and best seen if there´s no stupid haicare commercial overlaying the picture...
I hope some sort power will enforce Intervention on the American government. Cus that one cant run loose either.. Too bad the indians did not have someone looking out for them when the white man came...IF someone really loses 10acres wich i dont doubt he does since starlings can fly in up to 300.000 birds, then it should be a state matter.. the government should cover the loss by some sort of wildlife fond. Sounds like america should make starling the national bird. u know dark and evil
Your a tosser of the highest order. It's people like you who are killing the world. Starlings have been about for a lot longer than man and it's man's stupidity (thats you) that is making them rear. Get a life and learn to use it.
Why don't you do some research on why the starling is such a problem for native birds. I agree it's a beautiful bird but it's also a bird species that has caused a 30% drop in native cavity nesting birds. So toss off to that with your ignorance that just shines through, I'm sure you won't actually take the time to google starlings to find out what problems they cause. The only plus for starlings is they eat insects but our native birds would do the same thing if they were full strength.
You don't get it do you.There is a balance to life and we, the human race, are putting an uneven strain on "life" as we expand into what nature provides. A great deal of the decline in the worlds species can be directly attributed to mans influence.
You don't come from the UK, by the look of it. The decline in a variety of birds here it very noticeable.I'm sorry that your local songbirds are suffering because of an excess of another type of bird but is that not part of the balance.
No it's not part of the balance because starlings will come into an area with up to 10,000 birds and wipe out everything. They are not native to the US so our native birds still have not figured out how to combat the starlings. I have been birding for 25 years and watched the starlings come in and take over my 3.5 acres evicting the woodpeckers, bluebirds, purple martins, and killing the adults when they caught them in the nestboxes or cavities. The destruction they do far outweighs the good.
I'm sorry that you have such a vast problem with Starlings in your part of the world. Here in the UK there is great concern about the rapid decline in many bird species including the Starling. They do not, and as far as I'm aware, behaved in the way that you describe here in the UK. I understand why you hate them. I guess if I had a non native species in my area doing so much damage I'd have a different view on them. (The New Zealand Flat Worm comes to mind)
I respect that biscayforce12 and I would take the same view if one of our birds were endangered here and being killed in the UK. It's not often that I run into an adult on these issues so I usually take a hard line towards the starling lovers. They refuse to look into the problems that we face due to 200 million of them here in the US and increasing every year. My dad has a small farm and he loses at least 10 acres of corn and seed each year due to starlings not to mention the martins being dead
The UK has just published the results of it's annual garden-watch for wild birds. Most birds are down in numbers. That could be because of the long and, for the UK, hard winter.
But the Starling is down by 76% compared to 1997. I haven't seen a flock of Starlings for some years and now I know why. Can we have some of yours please?
I make it a point to always research something in depth before I just take a stand on an issue but there are those that just think because it's one of gods creatures that no intervention is needed to save our native species. Charles manson is one of gods creatures too but we can't have his kind running loose in society due to the threat they pose. I know that a bird doesn't have evil intentions due to instincts but I use that as an example of why intervention is needed.
That being said I think the starling is a beautiful bird and one of the most intelligent in the wild. I can understand why someone would want one as a pet too after watching what they are capable of. I only try to educate people on what is seen happening all accross the US to our native cavity nesting birds so people will stop feeding the starlings in the wild. I made the mistake of feeding them one year and lost all my cavity nesters and it took a whole year to get rid of the starlings.
freddyfast9.I now understand why you hate them and I am now more enlightened as to your problem. Some of the other positive comments about Starlings are from the European point of view,like me, but if you,USA, are being over run with them and upsetting what should be a natural balance then best you keep shooting them. It goes against my instinct but it's not fair to other creatures to have such a massive in-balance. We have a similar problem with the North American Grey Squirrel here in the UK.
Thanks biscayforce12 I actually have a pet starling and I take good care of him but in the wild I use very aggressive tactics to humanely control them. I wish there were a way to capture 50-100 million of them and transplant them to the UK where there numbers are declining. I am not one to see any species become extinct that's never my goal. I have read that our 2 european pest birds are on the "red list" in the UK which is shocking to me.
I usually don't bother to explain that I have a starling as a pet when I have such a distaste for them in the wild. Most people don't take the time to read when I say my problem is with them in the wild not as pets. It comes as no surprise that I would get intelligent discussion from someone accross the pond. I served in the military for 6 years and had the good fortune to work with soldiers from the UK it was a blast when out drinking. We were guarding generals at a summit meeting.
JW you can talk til you are blue in the face to these starling lovers but until they actually do some objective research on what a negative impact this bird has they will never change their mind. I have been bird watching for 25 years and all of my purple martins were killed by starlings and now they finally chased off my other nesting songbirds I had to take my nestboxes down. I purchased "the ultimate repeating sparrow/starling trap" and am finally thinning them down. I now have an air rifle.
I believe you come from the USA. If that is so then I shall withdraw my comment about you. I now understand what the US is having to put up with. I speak from a UK point of view where the Starling is in steep decline. I apologise. If you come from Europe the comment will stay.
I never thought of them as ugly, just mean. They're mean to the littler birds around here. That's what happens when you introduce a non-native species. Thanx for the vid.
beautiful bird and motion
utcarrot 1 week ago
Amazing tail spread! I need to watch more slo-mo videos to figure out what's going on with birds taking off (landing seems a bit more intuitive to me somehow). Thanks for posting!
NormyPie 1 month ago
Who thinks they're ugly? They're beautiful!
Starlingchaser 2 months ago
All the way from Starlingrad!
GerbilEssences 5 months ago
and suddenly PAUL appears and eats it :D
28maxw 6 months ago
I just love your videos! They are purely amazing! Keep up the awesomeness!! :D
Sarlathebirdlover 9 months ago
Starlings are friends of the grain farmer. They consume HUGE amounts of insects which feed on crops. And they are a so-called 'invasive species' just like the snakehead, and the walking catfish, and the python. Nature will always balance itself, no matter how much mischief man does in his selfish acts.
7mikethebike 9 months ago
Who the hell disliked this video?!?!
KgirlHasTheWits 10 months ago
Starlings are NOT ugly, they are beautiful creatures, as are all animals. :)
Plantazm005 1 year ago
SUPER BIRD!!!
emraldYE 1 year ago
like a boss
hr1100 1 year ago
The video is wonderful - the dammned commercial i can´t klick away is not. I am very sorry for this comment but your amazing ultraslo videos are the best i know in the tube and best seen if there´s no stupid haicare commercial overlaying the picture...
Anyway friendly greetings from the german Queen
QueenOfUnimatrixZero 1 year ago
3,2,1 takeoff...
piromoretta 1 year ago
I hope some sort power will enforce Intervention on the American government. Cus that one cant run loose either.. Too bad the indians did not have someone looking out for them when the white man came...IF someone really loses 10acres wich i dont doubt he does since starlings can fly in up to 300.000 birds, then it should be a state matter.. the government should cover the loss by some sort of wildlife fond. Sounds like america should make starling the national bird. u know dark and evil
CharlyHNA 1 year ago
Wow, all you people saying we should kill every starling in the whole world, I think you should just appreciate this video's beauty. Jees.
violetsarntblue 2 years ago
*click* err err
Duvmasta 2 years ago
Anything natural like this in slow motion is always so beautiful.
Man I wish i could slow down time be pretty neat or whatever.
mesazoa 2 years ago
That was amazing, i miss the starlings, so rare nowdays in my back yard.
neptuneey 2 years ago
I know your ignorance does the same to me...
jw13303 2 years ago 2
Love the launch, like a competitive swimmer leaving the blocks. Very beautiful footage. Thanks. :-)
nameofthepen 2 years ago
Starlings are quite beautiful, aren't they? Thanks Nom!
ancestralblue 2 years ago
I like shooting these ones.. They are SHIT BIRDS PEOPLE!! Do ANY of you KNOW how INVASIVE THESE BIRDS ARE?! DEATH to stalings!!
jw13303 2 years ago
jw13303 you make me sick
xXfieraXx 2 years ago
Yes! Death to starlings! These birds are dirty, smelly little vermin, people...I kill'em every time i see one. And like you said very very invasive.
BergMister 2 years ago
w13303
Your a tosser of the highest order. It's people like you who are killing the world. Starlings have been about for a lot longer than man and it's man's stupidity (thats you) that is making them rear. Get a life and learn to use it.
biscayforce12 2 years ago
Why don't you do some research on why the starling is such a problem for native birds. I agree it's a beautiful bird but it's also a bird species that has caused a 30% drop in native cavity nesting birds. So toss off to that with your ignorance that just shines through, I'm sure you won't actually take the time to google starlings to find out what problems they cause. The only plus for starlings is they eat insects but our native birds would do the same thing if they were full strength.
freddyfast9 2 years ago
freddyfast9
You don't get it do you.There is a balance to life and we, the human race, are putting an uneven strain on "life" as we expand into what nature provides. A great deal of the decline in the worlds species can be directly attributed to mans influence.
You don't come from the UK, by the look of it. The decline in a variety of birds here it very noticeable.I'm sorry that your local songbirds are suffering because of an excess of another type of bird but is that not part of the balance.
biscayforce12 2 years ago
No it's not part of the balance because starlings will come into an area with up to 10,000 birds and wipe out everything. They are not native to the US so our native birds still have not figured out how to combat the starlings. I have been birding for 25 years and watched the starlings come in and take over my 3.5 acres evicting the woodpeckers, bluebirds, purple martins, and killing the adults when they caught them in the nestboxes or cavities. The destruction they do far outweighs the good.
freddyfast9 2 years ago
freddyfast9
I'm sorry that you have such a vast problem with Starlings in your part of the world. Here in the UK there is great concern about the rapid decline in many bird species including the Starling. They do not, and as far as I'm aware, behaved in the way that you describe here in the UK. I understand why you hate them. I guess if I had a non native species in my area doing so much damage I'd have a different view on them. (The New Zealand Flat Worm comes to mind)
biscayforce12 2 years ago
I respect that biscayforce12 and I would take the same view if one of our birds were endangered here and being killed in the UK. It's not often that I run into an adult on these issues so I usually take a hard line towards the starling lovers. They refuse to look into the problems that we face due to 200 million of them here in the US and increasing every year. My dad has a small farm and he loses at least 10 acres of corn and seed each year due to starlings not to mention the martins being dead
freddyfast9 2 years ago
freddyfast9
The UK has just published the results of it's annual garden-watch for wild birds. Most birds are down in numbers. That could be because of the long and, for the UK, hard winter.
But the Starling is down by 76% compared to 1997. I haven't seen a flock of Starlings for some years and now I know why. Can we have some of yours please?
Regards
biscayforce12 1 year ago
I make it a point to always research something in depth before I just take a stand on an issue but there are those that just think because it's one of gods creatures that no intervention is needed to save our native species. Charles manson is one of gods creatures too but we can't have his kind running loose in society due to the threat they pose. I know that a bird doesn't have evil intentions due to instincts but I use that as an example of why intervention is needed.
freddyfast9 2 years ago
That being said I think the starling is a beautiful bird and one of the most intelligent in the wild. I can understand why someone would want one as a pet too after watching what they are capable of. I only try to educate people on what is seen happening all accross the US to our native cavity nesting birds so people will stop feeding the starlings in the wild. I made the mistake of feeding them one year and lost all my cavity nesters and it took a whole year to get rid of the starlings.
freddyfast9 2 years ago
freddyfast9.I now understand why you hate them and I am now more enlightened as to your problem. Some of the other positive comments about Starlings are from the European point of view,like me, but if you,USA, are being over run with them and upsetting what should be a natural balance then best you keep shooting them. It goes against my instinct but it's not fair to other creatures to have such a massive in-balance. We have a similar problem with the North American Grey Squirrel here in the UK.
biscayforce12 2 years ago
Thanks biscayforce12 I actually have a pet starling and I take good care of him but in the wild I use very aggressive tactics to humanely control them. I wish there were a way to capture 50-100 million of them and transplant them to the UK where there numbers are declining. I am not one to see any species become extinct that's never my goal. I have read that our 2 european pest birds are on the "red list" in the UK which is shocking to me.
freddyfast9 2 years ago
I usually don't bother to explain that I have a starling as a pet when I have such a distaste for them in the wild. Most people don't take the time to read when I say my problem is with them in the wild not as pets. It comes as no surprise that I would get intelligent discussion from someone accross the pond. I served in the military for 6 years and had the good fortune to work with soldiers from the UK it was a blast when out drinking. We were guarding generals at a summit meeting.
freddyfast9 2 years ago
JW you can talk til you are blue in the face to these starling lovers but until they actually do some objective research on what a negative impact this bird has they will never change their mind. I have been bird watching for 25 years and all of my purple martins were killed by starlings and now they finally chased off my other nesting songbirds I had to take my nestboxes down. I purchased "the ultimate repeating sparrow/starling trap" and am finally thinning them down. I now have an air rifle.
freddyfast9 2 years ago 3
jw13303
I believe you come from the USA. If that is so then I shall withdraw my comment about you. I now understand what the US is having to put up with. I speak from a UK point of view where the Starling is in steep decline. I apologise. If you come from Europe the comment will stay.
biscayforce12 2 years ago
You should keep these conversations in private messages.
Cuhfuhfuhd 2 years ago
Awsome...very, very beautiful! Thanks :-)
sprichbeeke 2 years ago
that so friking awsum !!! kdnawojbduloabwoöed
m0nk3yl 2 years ago
That is BEAUTIFUL!
Jesusdragon737 2 years ago
that is frikin awesome
whocaresllol 2 years ago
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im getting so sick of all these stupid videos of birds. im unsubscribing.
tacopaco1234 2 years ago
me too
Longboarder140 2 years ago
beautiful o.o...
AyamaUchiha345 2 years ago
I love starlings :)
Showjumper4243 2 years ago
You must not have any fruit trees or grape vines......
BoatRepairMan 2 years ago
How big is 10 sec 2000fps video on your hard drive? I'm curious :)
streetracerm5 2 years ago
20,000 frames times the size of each frame...
MacBelak 2 years ago
WONT YOU FLY FREE BIRD YEAH
warfrek93 2 years ago
How awsome would it be if you could manage for film a shooting star !!!
THAT WOULD BE AWSOMENESS !
sscf18 2 years ago 7
starlings are trash
USVigil 2 years ago
awesome
TheeBaker 2 years ago
I like how the tail fans out at the moment of lift off and it seems to be getting lift from that too.
crazylegoblock 2 years ago
You should put the video in real speed in the end of the video so that we can realize how much this actually slows down.
suihkubad 2 years ago
Alot of people have told that to Ultraslo, i think they are working with it or something.
Janskleig 2 years ago
They sound like chickens with a fked up throat to me
PolxenTwo 2 years ago 2
Ugh. Your vidoes take too long to play.
kayjames888 2 years ago
love your stuff keep up the sweet vids
AIRSFTKNG 2 years ago
fucking google ads! pop up at the most inconvenient times...
Amazing video! truly beautiful..
afrocass 2 years ago 2
Lol, so true about the google ads.
MotionFur 2 years ago
LOL!O!L!OL!Ol!!!
Yeah I agree
PolxenTwo 2 years ago
it looks like they're being picked up like their wings aren't doing all the lifting work
Ice92ManFlores 2 years ago
awesome!!
bliink182 2 years ago
What you guys do is pure art.
NeexFox 2 years ago
Gorgeous.
TwinklyCandy 2 years ago
:-)
000nour000 2 years ago
Ultraslo has a bird fetish
grasseline 2 years ago
Great! very elegant!
selvatico3 2 years ago
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Sweet vid. Starlings are such ugly birds though.
VXLBeast 2 years ago
funny how we think they are ugly and then we see this.
ultraslo 2 years ago 10
I never thought of them as ugly, just mean. They're mean to the littler birds around here. That's what happens when you introduce a non-native species. Thanx for the vid.
melodykentucky 2 years ago
Interesting observation. The human eyes can be deceptive, there is beauty right in front of us.
VXLBeast 2 years ago
@ultraslo I've never thought of them as ugly. They are common, dirty, and beautiful.
xraptor10 1 year ago
@xraptor10 I have one as a pet, and they are extremely clean. Our starling would take a bath 3 to 4 times a day if you let him.
HayleyMch 1 year ago
@HayleyMch Naturally though, they tend towards garbage. When people own rats, the rats are typically quite clean too. Either way I like them.
xraptor10 1 year ago
@ultraslo I think they are pretty.
marble97c 1 year ago 2
@ultraslo no way man! starlings are gorgeous either way
Cheetree1 4 months ago
@VXLBeast They are not ugly. You probably have seen one closely.
ukrainesov21 1 year ago
@VXLBeast lol, not if you own one... it's hard for a "momma" to think that her own "child" is anything less than perfect...
pyropur3 1 year ago
a bit boring...
Cezarijus 2 years ago
Looks a lot like the launch of a good diver. :-)
nameofthepen 2 years ago
Feathers are so shiny *.*
thien0995 2 years ago 2
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Sweet cool vid (check out my vids)
blackgoku56 2 years ago
eighth
dumplesdumples 2 years ago
Woah sweet!!!~
Weirdal56492 2 years ago 2
beauty
JoelitoMX 2 years ago