Talk:List of collective nouns for birds

message: I have a question. 
What is the collective noun for the bird, Bulbuls?
Is there a different noun for them as a 
happy mated couple or as unmated aggresive individuals?
Is there a different noun for different kinds of them?
Patrick Hung
patrick_c_hung@hotmail.com
:I always thought a general term for a group of birds was a flock i.e. a flock of geese, a flock of pigeons, a flock of seagulls ;-) or even just a flock of birds. I'm glad someone included the outside link. For some reason I had it in my head that a group of Cardinals (avian variety) was called a College, but I could never find any confirmation, even in my dictionary. For a while, I thought maybe it was because cardinals rarely flock together...but I digress. Anyway, I would guess a flock is a good general term for a group of birds. --Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 07:36, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Collective noun for bulbuls?

message: Is this related concept?
:I believe so.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.46.115.198 (talk) 04:23, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese Counter word 

message: A user is repeatedly censoring the collective noun of birds on some pages, at least Lark and Raven. Editors of collective nouns may be interested in chiming in about what I see as unilateral and unencyclopedian vandalism. Issue commented with diffs at User_talk:Jimfbleak#Your_vandalism_on_Raven_and_Lark.
IMPORTANT: I have posted the same message on Talk:Collective_noun so people interested in discussing this issue should probably better post over there rather than here.
-- 62.147.38.149 11:34, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And my reply is also there, despite the anon not bothering to let me know he was raising this issue.. jimfbleak 12:51, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Collateral vandalism on birds pages

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot 04:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007-08-3 Automated pywikipediabot message 

message: Not too sure whether this is appropriate without the additional qualification given in Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, which has the following for covey:
covey noun (coveys) 1 a small flock of game birds of one type, especially partridge or grouse. 2 a small group of people.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c: from Old French covée, from cover to hatch.
<www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=covey&title=21st>
Any quick google search (and dictionary check) would show that "covey" is a very common collective for quail (about 660,000 hits for "covey of quail", compared with 112,000 hits for "bevy of quail" and only 408 hits for "drift of quail")... I suggest this should be added. Ptilinopus (talk) 10:55, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A covey of birds

message: Was this vandalism?  There is no attribution, and I see very few hits for the phrase in google.  Those that are there may have been copied from this article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 17.202.12.146 (talk) 06:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It must be. Deleting it until someone can find a verifiable source for it. MalignantMouse (talk) 16:21, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Hannah Miller of ostriches 

message: In light of yesterday's incident, we need a new term, for a group of birds that get pulled into an airplane engine resulting in the shredding of both. I suggest a "Fanjet of birds". Other suggestions welcome. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 11:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[US Airways Flight 1549]] 

message: These are not the same bird so the entry for "chough (i.e. jackdaw)" may need to be changed. If there is some subtlty intended - such as an obsolete usage of "chough" for "jackdaw" (I'm not aware of this, it would be my best guess only)- this should be made clear.  UnaDormienda (talk) 00:23, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chough and Jackdaw 

message: In Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" he has a story called "A parliament of rooks" yet here it says "a building of rooks". Might there be multiple possibilities here? Valley2city‽ 19:54, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  parliament of rooks? 

message: Claiming that this is referenced in Juliana Berners Book of St. Albans presents an anacronism. The book was printed around 1480, but Australia (where the two species of lyrebird are found) was not explored by westerners in any serious fashion till the 1700s. Unless there is some other bird by the same name, this entry is suspicious.
Philip Wilson  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Philip V Wilson (talk • contribs) 12:28, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A musket of lyrebirds? 

message: Several sources list "unkindness" as the collective noun for a group of ravens, but I'm not sure whether they're sufficiently authoritative. Has anyone else heard this term? Here are a few sources:
http://www.pubquizhelp.com/animals/groups.html 
http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/ravens_-_collective_noun 
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_collective_noun_for_a_group_of_ravens
Brian Zandar555 (talk) 17:28, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  An unkindness of ravens? 

message: I've heard many times over the years that when crows do their annual gathering to roost in large numbers (breeding time, I guess) it is called a congress.  I cannot find any mention of this on wikipedia or wiktionary.  Is it not common usage? 64.196.90.242 (talk) 17:02, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Congress of Crows? 

message: Article merged with List of collective nouns Ozzieboy (talk) 20:08, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged with List of collective nouns