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A company of parrots & other collectives
By Susan Walker
One of the guides asked me the other day what a group of frogs is called, as in Spanish it translates to a congress. To be honest, I didn’t even know a group of parrots had their own collective name. Here are a few others:
An army of frogs
A knot or lump of toads
A school of fish
A gaggle of geese
A flock of birds
A crash of rhinos
A pod of whales
A herd of cattle
A pride of lions
A cloud of gnats
A swarm of insects
Here is a list of Bird collectives, terms that you can use to describe a group of like bird species.
A ballet of swans
A bazaar of guillemots
A bevy of quail [or swans]
A bouquet of pheasants [when flushed]
A brace of grouse
A brood of hens
A building of rooks
A cast of hawks [or falcons]
A charm of finches
A colony or huddle of penguins
A company of parrots
A congregation of plovers
A convocation of eagles
A cote of doves
A cover of coots
A covey of partridges [or grouse or ptarmigans]
A deceit of lapwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A dole of doves
An exaltation of larks
A fall of woodcocks
A flamboyance or ostentation of peacocks
A flight of swallows [or doves, goshawks, or cormorants]
A fling of dunlin
A gaggle of geese [wild or domesticated]
A host of sparrows
A kettle of hawks [riding a thermal]
A murmuration of starlings
A murder or congress of crows
A muster of storks [or turkeys]
A nye of pheasants [on the ground]
A paddling of ducks [on the water]
A parliament of owls [or rooks]
A party of jays
A peep of chickens
A pitying of turtledoves
A plump of waterfowl
A raft of ducks [on water]
A rafter of turkeys
A sedge of cranes
A siege of herons
A skein of geese [in flight]
A sord of mallards
A spring of teal
A tiding of magpies
A trip of dotterel
An unkindness of ravens
A watch of nightingales
A wedge of swans
A wisp of snipe
Now we just need a few suggestions for some more local birds like tanagers and oropendulas. I suggest a spark of tanagers as they flitter around in a range of colours like the sparks from a fireworks show. As for oropendulas, a somersault would go some way to describing their dance when they call. Any other suggestions?
