Feathered Friend Collectives
/I've written about collective nouns for animals before. I've even set up a whole page for them on our website. Some are pretty mundane … a herd of cows, a flock of sheep or a pack of wolves. The ones that intrigue me the most, however, are the collective nouns for specific species of birds. Some of them are descriptive and others are off the wall. See what I mean.
A confusion of guinea fowl
A desert of lapwings
A gulp of swallows
A descent of woodpeckers
A wake of buzzards
An opera of canaries
A mob of emus
A weight of albatross
A fling of sandpipers
A wobble of ostriches
By the way, a great source of collective nouns for birds is New Zealand Birds.