December 2007 Archives

Birds (a)

• a murmuration of starlings
• a desert of lapwing
• a parliament of owls
• a gulp of cormorants
• a pitying of doves
• a murder of crows
• an exaltation of larks
• a charm of finches
• a stand of flamingoes
• a watch of nightingales
• a rafter of turkeys
• a committee of vultures
• a descent of woodpeckers
• an unkindness of ravens
• a convocation of eagles
• a siege of cranes

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Other animals (b)

• a business of ferrets
• a cartload of chimpanzees
• a coalition of cheetahs
• a congress of baboons
• a gang of elk
• a huddle of penguins
• a kaleidoscope of butterflies
• a labour of moles
• a prickle of porcupines
• a quarrel of sparrows
• a romp of otters
• a tiding of magpies
• a tower of giraffes
• a ubiquity of sparrows
• a whiteness of swans
• a zeal of zebras
• a sleuth of bears
• a shrewdness of apes
• a flutter of butterflies
• an intrusion of cockroaches
• a bask of crocodiles
• a skulk of foxes
• a smack of jellyfish
• a leap of leopards
• a crash of rhinoceroses
• a scurry of squirrels
• a streak of tigers
• a shiver of sharks