Beautiful pictures have surfaced of the dazzling moment tens of thousands of budgies are tornadoing through the sky in an amazing exhibition. British photographer Paul Williams - director and producer at the BBC Natural History Unit - was treated to a mesmerizing show, with the murmuration of parrots performing breathtaking patterns above a shrinking waterhole in the Australian outback. The budgies - a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot or parakeet - flocked in droves to brighten up the sky as a tornado descended in a hopeless quest for rare water in the middle of the country.
Frantically flapping to get to shore, their swoops and dives made colorful shape-shifting clouds to defend themselves from predators. Mr. Williams had begun a journey to uncover the alluring action of the murmuration of the birds forming over the shrinking water hole.
'Using Google Earth I discovered a number of small waterholes, and ultimately stumble upon one that was scattered with little green feathers and fresh droppings,' he stated. 'It was not long before the sky above me was loaded with the flutters of thousands of budgies - as many as 80,000 - a green hurricane rotating around the waterhole, all desperate to drink before the sun got too hot.' For 7 early mornings, Mr. Williams and his team watched as the amazing budgie hurricane releases before their eyes till a harsh thunderstorm swept through the desert. With water everywhere, the birds scattered and the great event was over.
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