Bird Groupings

[Yakram]

Following on from a disappointing birdwatch experience this weekend (we were deserted by our feathered friends), I thought the following bird groupings might interest you (found on a uni website which found some of the groupings were found to be 500 years old.)
To exercise your 'little grey cells' during the remainder of winter (01 Dec to 28 Feb, with the grumpiest day of the year scientifically proven as 23 Jan) can you come up with alternative or improved suggestions?

A bevy of quail
A bouquet of pheasants [when flushed]
A brood of hens
A building of rooks
A cast of hawks [or falcons]
A charm of finches
A colony of penguins
A company of parrots
A congregation of plovers
A cover of coots
A covey of partridges [or grouse or ptarmigans]
A deceit of lapwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A dissimulation of birds
A dole of doves
An exaltation of larks
A fall of woodcocks
A flight of swallows [or doves, goshawks, or cormorants]
A gaggle of geese [wild or domesticated]
A host of sparrows
A kettle of hawks [riding a thermal]
A murmuration of starlings
A murder of crows
A muster of storks
A nye of pheasants [on the ground]
An ostentation of peacocks
A paddling of ducks [on the water]
A parliament of owls
A party of jays
A peep of chickens
A pitying of turtledoves
A raft of ducks
A rafter of turkeys
A siege of herons
A skein of geese [in flight]
A sord of mallards
A spring of teal
A tidings of magpies
A trip of dotterel
An unkindness of ravens
A watch of nightingales
A wedge of swans [or geese, flying in a "V"]
A wisp of snipe

[Spruance]

Just quickly off the top of my head...

A constellation of starlings!

[sleepysunday]

Oh I like this topic

A chatter of housewives
A nag of spouses
A martinet of mothers
A bounty of beauties

[sweetleaf]

sleepysunday said:

Oh I like this topic

A chatter of housewives
A nag of spouses
A martinet of mothers
A bounty of beauties

wrong kind of bird sleepy!


;D ;D

[sleepysunday]

Ooops...

I do hope nobody thought I was going off topic