Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:54:36 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Laura M. Appelbaum" Subject: The Straight Dope on Birds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This isn't specific to Maryland birds, but it was so interesting and well explained I thought I'd share it with the group. The website "The Straight Dope" today addresses the question "How does a flock of birds wheel and swoop in unison?" http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mflockswoop.html Now, if only we were the *Pennsylvania* list group, we'd have a prospective new member in the questioner, one Curtis Montgomery, who reports that his "employer is getting irritated with my avian aerial obsession" -- I'll bet more than a few of us could plead "guilty" to a similiar monomania. :D LMA ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================