Inspired by our Conservation Officer Carl Cornish (thanks for the idea Carl) and following the taxonomy blog from last week, I thought I'd move onto collective nouns of birds and after some investigation, found some interesting ones – most of which I had never heard of.
So without further ado, here are some I found – all birds that you can find here at Langford....
Bittern – a sedge of bitterns (contributed by Carl) – also applies to herons
Bullfinch – a bellowing of bullfinches
Buzzard – a wake of buzzards
Cormorant – a gulp of cormorants
Coot – a covert of coots
Curlew – a herd of curlews
Dunlin – a fling of dunlins
Falcons – a cast of falcons
Jay – a scold of jays
Lapwing – a deceit or desert of lapwings
Mallard – a sord, flush or puddling of mallards
Moorhen – a plump of moorhens
Snipe – a wisp or walk of snipe
Swans – a wedge, drift or whiting of swans
Teal – a spring of teal
Woodpeckers – a descent of woodpeckers
Wren – a herd of wrens
And one you may know....the famous murmuration of starlings, but did you know that a group of starlings can also be known as a chatter or a cloud?
REFERENCES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns