Photographer Soren Solkaer has published a book Black Sun collecting photographs of starlings who congregate each winter by the hundreds of thousands. When they take flight together, they respond to any stimulus or threat to any member with nearly-instantaneous shifts in formation. He has seen them form a solid black wall to repel a falcon.
Robin Young on NPR's Here and Now (hear the story) asked him about similar behavior in schools of fish, and about the phenomenon as a metaphor for collaboration. But the two of them agreed that the sight is beautiful enough without adding another layer of meaning to it.
Here is the video embedded from the Here and Now website:
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