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I especially love a 'charm of hummingbirds'! Margy Terpstra Kirkwood, MO [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Fisher" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 6:47 PM Subject: Collective names for birds > John Hitzeman's post asking if there are names for groups of birds > comparable to a "gaggle" of geese got me to googling. Here are some: > > Birds in general: > > Chicks: brood, clutch > Birds in flight: Flock, flight, plump, knob, parcel, pod (small flock) > Birds in an aviary: volary > Game birds: volary, brace, plump, knob > Ground birds: flock, dissimulation > Sea birds: wreck > > Species: > > Albatrosses: rookery > Auks: colony, flock, raft > Bitterns: sedge > Bobolinks: chain > Budgerigars: chatter > Bullfinches: bellowing > Buzzards: wake > Chickadees: tribe > Chickens: brood, clutch, flock, run, peep > Chicks: clutch, chattering > Choughs: chattering > Coots: covert, cover, raft > Cormorants: flight > Cranes: herd, seige or sedge > Crows, murder, horde, parcel > Curlew: herd > Dotterel: trip > Doves: cote, flight, dule or dole, paddling; a pitying (turtle doves only) > Ducks on water: raft, paddling, bunch, team, bed > Ducks in flight: flight, flock, brace > Ducks on ground: team, badling > Dunlins: fling > Eagles: convocation, congregation > Emus: mob > Falcons: cast > Finches: charm > Flamingoes: stand, flamboyance > Geese: gaggle, flock (in air) skein, team, wedge (on water (plump) > Goldfinches: charm > Goshawks: flight > Grouse: pack, covey > Guillemots: bazaar > Guinea fowl: confusion > Gulls: colony, screech > Hawks general: cast > Hawks in flight: kettle > Hawks spiraling: boil > Hens: brood > Herons: scattering, seige, sedge, hedge > Hummingbirds: charm > Jays: party, scold > Lapwings: desert or deceit > Larks: bevy, exaltation, ascension > Magpies: tittering, tiding, gulp, murder, charm > Mallards: sord, brace > Mudhens: fleet > Nightingales: watch > Owls: parliament, stare, wisdom, study > Parrots: pandemonium, company > Partridges: covey, bew > Peacocks: muster, ostentation, pulchritude > Peeps: litter > Pelicans: pod > Penguins: rookery, colony > Pheasants: head, nye, nest, nide (brood), bevy, bouquet (take-off) > Pigeons: kit, flock, flight > Plovers: stand, wing, congregation > Ptarmigan: covey > Quail: bevy, drift, covey > Ravens: unkindness, murder > Rooks: building, rookery, clamour, parliament > Ruffs: hill > Saldpipers: fling > Seagulls: flock > Sheldrakes: doadling > Skylarks: ascension > Snipe: wisp, walk > Sparrows: host > Starlings: murmuration > Storks: mustering > Swallows: flight, gulp > Swans (general): bevy > Swans (flight): wedge > Teal: spring > Thrush: mutation > Turkeys: rafter, posse, gang > Turtle doves: pitying > Vultures: venue > Vultures circling: kettle > Widgeons: company > Woodpeckers: descent > Wrens > > > Bob Fisher > Independence, Missouri > [log in to unmask] > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The Audubon Society of Missouri's Wild Bird Discussion Forum > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://po.missouri.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mobirds-l&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------------ The Audubon Society of Missouri's Wild Bird Discussion Forum List archives: https://po.missouri.edu/archives/mobirds-l.html