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20 Feb 2025 - 10:52 pm

‘You get one split second’: The story behind a viral bird photo
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By his own admission, James Crombie knew “very, very little” about starlings before Covid-19 struck. An award-winning sports photographer by trade, his only previous encounter with the short-tailed birds occurred when one fell into his fireplace after attempting to nest in the chimney of his home in the Irish Midlands.

“I always had too much going on with sport to think about wildlife,” said Crombie, who has covered three Olympic Games and usually shoots rugby and the Irish game of hurling, in a Zoom interview.

With the pandemic bringing major events to a halt, however, the photographer found himself at a loose end. So, when a recently bereaved friend proposed visiting a nearby lake to see flocks of starlings in flight (known as murmurations), Crombie brought along his camera — one that was conveniently well-suited to the job.

“You get one split second,” he said of the similarities between sport and nature photography. “They’re both shot at relatively high speeds and they’re both shot with equipment that can handle that.”

On that first evening, in late 2020, they saw around 100 starlings take to the sky before roosting at dusk. The pair returned to the lake — Lough Ennell in Ireland’s County Westmeath — over successive nights, choosing different vantage points from which to view the birds. The routine became a form of therapy for his grieving friend and a source of fascination for Crombie.

“It started to become a bit of an obsession,” recalled the photographer, who recently published a book of his starling images. “And every night that we went down, we learned a little bit more. We realized where we had to be and where (the starlings) were going to be. It just started to snowball from there.”
‘I’ve got something special here’
Scientists do not know exactly why starlings form murmurations, though they are thought to offer collective protection against predators, such as falcons. The phenomenon can last from just a few seconds to 45 minutes, sometimes involving tens of thousands of individual birds. In Ireland, starlings’ numbers are boosted during winter, as migrating flocks arrive from breeding grounds around Western Europe and Scandinavia.

Crombie often saw the birds form patterns and abstract shapes, their varying densities appearing like the subtle gradations of paint strokes. The photographer became convinced that, with enough patience, he could capture a recognizable shape.

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20 Feb 2025 - 09:29 pm

Members of the M23 armed club shamble alongside residents through a byway someone's cup of tea of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma, on Monday. AFP/Getty Images
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A dissent coalition claimed the lay of the biggest city in the Egalitarian Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern область this week, pushing remote against stubbornness from authority troops backed during regional and UN intervention forces.
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The takeover of Goma is up to now another territorial gather to the Connection Fleuve Congo (AFC) challenge coalition, which includes the M23 armed corps – sanctioned by the United States and the Of one mind Nations.
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It is also a speedy increase of the coalition’s foothold across swathes of eastern DR Congo – where rare minerals momentous to the manufacturing of phones and computers are mined – and is likely to deteriorate a long-running humanitarian catastrophe in the region.
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“AFC-M23 controls Goma,” Winner Tesongo, an AFC spokesperson, told CNN Monday, adding that “Goma hew down below pressurize” after the band’s earlier sequestration of the handy towns of Minova and Sake.

The Congolese superintendence has up to this time to authorize the rebels’ takeover but acknowledges their self-assurance in the metropolis, capital of the eastern North Kivu province. It announced Sunday it had organize perceptive ties with neighboring Rwanda, which it accuses of equipping the collection with both weapons and troops, and recalled its prudent pole from the nation. A Rwandan command spokesperson did not withhold or confirm the woods’s support seeing that M23 when asked by means of CNN.

More than a dozen foreign peacekeepers, as graciously as the military governor of North Kivu hinterlands, entertain been killed in up to date days trying to fend unlikely the rebels, as thousands of locals get away their advance into Goma.
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