These are exactly the same birds, did you see the animation that I made? I'm toggling between 2 frames (one at 6:44 and the second at 7:42) and you can see that these are exactly the same birds, and also exactly the same waves pattern in the lake. Maybe you will see the animation better if you'll see it in it's original size, here:
https://i.ibb.co/Qm6C5q0/Helicopter2.gif
No way that two frames that were taken at different times has exactly the same waves pattern and 3 birds at exactly the same spot.
You can check it yourself if you will open the video in 2 separate tabs on your browser, pause it on the first tab at 6:44, and pause it on the second tab at about 7:42. Now you can watch it Frame By Frame using the following keys on your keyboard:
https://i.ibb.co/jbjhdMx/Frame-By-Frame.jpg
You will see that the birds have the exact same pattern during all their flight from left to right, and as I said also the waves in the lake are exactly the same. The only different is that one frame has a helicopter and the other one hasn't.
By the way I saw that Discovery Channel have deleted this video from their YouTube channel... maybe it says something.
See my response to Eise.
1. The experiment in this video is trying to prove that the lake is curved because the earth is round...
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3. It has nothing to do with optics, see my reply to Eise.
I don't know if you aware of this but there is a large and very loud group of people especially in the US, who claim that the world is flat. Someone have to fight against stupid conspiracy theories like that.