Happy Thought for 8 March 2024
Have a Happy Thought:
Maybe you’re at a pub quiz, or filling in a crossword puzzle. Or maybe
you’ve just seen a whole bunch of birds and want to point them out but don’t want
to get an ‘80’s song stuck in your head for the next few hours
And I ran, I ran so far away …
Image: ‘80’s band A Flock of Seagulls https://www.mondosonoro.com/blog-musica/a-flock-of-seagulls/
(sorry)
Anyway, maybe you want to know what to call that group of birds.. is it
a flock of seagulls? (are there
even seagulls? Or are they just gulls?)
And we all know that it’s murder of crows, but what about some of the
lesser-known ones?
This
website has helpfully pulled together a list of the most common ‘collective nouns’
for birds. Feel free to visit for the whole list, here are a few of my faves,
and why:
A commotion of coots (they are very noisy honkers once they get going)
A curfew of curlews (just fun to say!)
A volery of wagtails (I have no idea what a volery is)
A booby of nuthatches (notice they don’t have a name for a group of
boobies here…)
A mischief of magpies (they must have met the Australian magpies…)
An invisibleness of ptarmigans (seriously, how are they calling them
invisible, you’ve obviously seen the ptarmigans if you’re pointing out a group
of them)
And of course, a murmuration of starlings. At least one of you receiving this (you know who you are) sees much better murmurations than this, but here is a short video I took just earlier this week, sunset on the Taranaki coast. Enjoy your moment of zen 😊
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