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If it's all the same to everyone else, I'd like to pretend for a few minute that I was the first person to refer to a mass of swarming birds as an aerial ballet.

What an apt and poetic way to describe the seamless synchronization, the unexpected grace, the majesty of movement as they dip, dive and dance with one another. How did I come up with such beautiful language? Feel free to ponder my many gifts as you watch these 10 videos of swarming birds.

I'm sure these birds just happened to be swarming at sunset, the most beautiful time of the day. How convenient. And the American Beauty Soundtrack was accidentally playing.

It's kind of like a fireworks show.

You kids are gonna be star(ling)s.

Anyone else see a whale?

How about jellyfish?

Who says there's nothing to do in the cornfields?

A cloud of birds on a river bank in Mali.

If that's not ominous and foreboding, I don't know what is.

Try not to have a seizure. I dare you.

Swarming over Brooklyn.