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Collective Nouns for Birds

     

Many thanks to Bernard P. Nofs of Trenton, New Jersey, USA, for his numerous additions to this list.

   

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On the History of Collective Nouns


More nonsense about birds


Whilst Watching a Dissimulation of Birds




Note:
New Zealand Birds has found no collective nouns under the alpha headings of "X", or "Z", therefore no corresponding pages for those letters have been established.


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Accentors, a diacriticality of
Accentors, a host of
Albatrosses, a flight of
Albatrosses, a rookery of
Albatrosses, a weight of
Anis, a cooch of
Anis, an orphanage of
Anis, a silliness of
Auklets (whiskered), a beard of
Auks, a colony of
Auks, a dopping of
Auks, a flock of
Auks, a loomery of
Auks, a raft of
Auks (little), a flight of
Auks (razor-billed), an edge of
Avcotes, a colony of
Awks, a flock of
Awks, a loomery of
Awks, a raft of
Awks, a swim of
Awks (great), an extinction of
Awks (great), a museum specimen of
Awks (great), a waddle of

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