Category: Broadcaster's Lounge
Hi all.
For the birds is short radio programmes produced by the American ornithologist Laura erickson.
All her shows are available as mp3s or as podcasts.
Check them out at http://www.lauraerickson.com/Radio/CurrentPrograms.html.
Nikos
Greetings Nikos,
Totally awesome this web address that you have given. The following is one link I clicked from this particular web address that you have listed. It is titled: Collective Nouns for Birds and here I have copied it…
This page is in a continual process of being developed.
A dissimulation, congregation, flock, or volary of birds OR a flew of birds (thanks to R.H.'s five-year-old daughter!!)
A sedge or sledge of bitterns.
A chattering of budgerigars (budgies) (thanks to Tracy Thomas)
A wake of buzzards.
A dodge of chickenhawks (thanks to Michael G. McGunnigle of Table Talk)
A brood or peep of chickens
A brood, chattering, or clutch of chicks
A chattering of choughs (thanks to Diana Hurlston)
A cover OR a covert OR a commotion of coots
A gulp OR a flight of cormorants
A herd, sedge, or sledge of cranes
A cawcus, hoard, murder of crows or a cawroboree of crows (in flight)
A cuckoo of cuckoos
A herd of curlews
A trip of dotterel
A dole OR a dule OR a pitying OR a flight of doves
A flock, a paddling, a team, OR a raft of ducks
A convocation of eagles
A clutch of eggs
A mob of emus
A cast of falcons
A charm of finches
A stand of flamingos
A gaggle of geese (on the ground or in the water)
A skein OR a wedge of geese (in flight)
A glister of goldfinches (thanks, Anna!) or a charm of goldfinches (thanks, Nathalie!)
A flight of goshawks
A covey OR a pack OR a drumming of grouse
A colony of gulls
A cast of hawks
A kettle OR a screw of hawks (in migration swarms)
A stream of hawks (once they top out of the kettle)
A brood of hens
A siege or a sedge of herons
A charm of hummingbirds
A party or a chatter of jays
A cluster of knots
A deceit OR a desert of lapwings
An exaltation or an ascension of larks
An asylum or a howl of loons
A tiding OR a tidings of magpies
A sord OR a sute of mallards
A richness of martins
A plagiary of mockingbirds (used by Eudora Welty and contributed by my dear friend Jett)
A watch of nightingales
A parliament of owls
A company or a flock of parrots
A covey of partridge
An ostentation OR a muster of peacocks
A litter (when fresh or frozen) or a puddle (when cooked) of peeps
A pod or a pouch or a raft or a squadron of pelicans (thanks to Barbara Greene of Sarasota Audubon!)
A colony or rookery of penguins
A cadge of peregrines (Thanks to Chris Murray!)
A bouquet OR a brace OR a covey OR a nide OR a nye of pheasants
A flurry of pied wagtails (Thanks, Anna!)
A kit OR a loft or a flight or a flock of pigeons
A congregation OR a deceit OR wings of plovers (thanks to Marc Moser!)
A covey of ptarmigans
A covey OR a bevy of quail
An unkindness of ravens
A building OR a clamor of rooks
A fling, pipe, or whistle of sandpipers
A wreck of seabirds
A shrill of shearwaters
A strand of silky flycatchers
A walk OR a wisp of snipe
A flight or host of sparrows
A murmuration OR a chattering of starlings
A muster OR a mustering of storks
A flight of swallows
A bevy OR a bank OR a game OR a herd OR a mark OR a wedge OR a lamentation OR a team of swans
A flock of swifts
A spring of teal
A mutation of thrush
A flock, gang, raft, or rafter of turkeys
A dule or pitying of turtledoves
A meal of vultures (Thanks to Trevor Poate) or a vortex of vultures (thanks, Anna!)
A plump of waterfowl
A company of wigeon
A fall of woodcocks
A descent of woodpeckers
In my house, there's the most simple of all collective terms, a mess of birds.
Thanks connie. Very interesting.
I didn't find this one myself. I was only listening to the mp3 shows.
Nikos
Also Nikos, another Link of interest through that web place here of your recommendation, though the report I would consider to be highly scientific/technical, though yet may be of special interest not only to yourself Nikos and equally a few others here of The Zone. The report titled:
Thanks Connie. Sounds interesting. I will check it out.
Also another Link that I found to be of interest from your web place recommendation and this report too, is scientific/technical in nature, titled: