Collective nouns of birds

[Jonners]

My boys and I took one last drive towards Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula on Sunday before turning and starting the long drive home when we spotted this group of Ravens lined up along the fence:


I used a well known search engine to find the collective noun for ravens and came up with a few: murder, unkindness, conspiracy, and my favourite for this particular photo, a storytelling of ravens.

I wonder if anyone else has any photos of collections of birds with appropriate (or even outrageous) collective nouns....

[faz]

i thought a murder was a flock of rooks ?

more than 2 tawnys is a parliment

[Jonners]

Originally Posted by faz

i thought a murder was a flock of rooks ?

more than 2 tawnys is a parliment

I found that different sources give different or even multiple answers, and some, like murder, are used for others. So depending what source you use, you could have a parliament of rooks or a parliament of owls, or a murder of crows or rooks or ravens! But there are some really good ones, and I guess you could just as easily concoct your own I hope there's some photos from WABbers to go with them

[faz]

thanks 4 the lesson

[elvisoneill]

My favorite is a murmuration of starlings.

[Elizabeth B]

A charm of goldfinches.

[savana]

For me, A gaggle of geese, A host of sparrows.

[Fieldfare95]

an exultation of larks

[JackBD95]

a siege of herons
a bevy of quail
a trip of dotterel
and
a rasp of guineafowl

[The Woodman]

A wisp of snipe.