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Birds, like fish, form flocks or shoals to minimise being picked off by predators. To do this, they maintain close proximity eye contact with three or four of their nearest neighbours. As one or two birds start to turn, the individual will tend to stay closest to those animals that are making the same decision, thus maintaining the flock/shoal. There will be some animals that are slower on the uptake, or decide to follow another group and consequently there will be swoops and divergences within the flock/shoal. The sum total is a confusing mass moving in unison this way and that, making it difficult for the predator to pick off an individual.
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Do flamingos swim alone or in packs?
The flamingo's "packs" are called "flocks". Like all birds of a feather, they flock together.
What animals can be in a flock?
The sheep is the answer. As it is said a flock of sheep.
What does the word flocks mean?
a group of birds
Birds with the same feathers flocks together?
Birds of a feather flock together, Meaning people of similar tastes congregate together. English proverb of the mid 16th Century
Why birds fly in flocks?
they have less chance of being shot
Do Baltimore Orioles migrate in flocks?
Yes
Do flocks feed together?
Yes the flock feeds together.
Would large flocks of birds show up on radar?
vaguely
How does macaws live?
they live in flocks of 10-30 birds or more
Who was the Roman god of nature or flocks?
They didn't have a God of birds.
Do lorikeets live in large flocks?
Lories and lorikeets live in large flocks in the wild.
Do parakeets like to be kept together?
Yes. They are very gregarious. In the wild, as most other birds, they live in flocks. For the most part they remain this way unless mating or brooding.
