One of my favorites is an 'abattoir' of shrikes.  (My French isn't great, 
but I believe it means 'slaughterhouse'.)


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From: "Barbara Powers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] Bird Trivia


In cleaning out a drawer I came across this list of groupings. Maybe you 
know others - a charm of finches, a parliament or a stare of owls, a 
convocation of
eagles, an exaltation of larks, a murmuration of starlings, an ostentation 
of peacocks, a spring of teals, a team of ducks, a volery of birds, a watch 
of nightingales, a wing or a congregation of plovers, a wedge of swans, a 
sedge of herons, a nye of pheasants, a siege of bitterns, a walk of snipe, a 
full of woodcock, a park of jays, a colony of penguins, an unkindness of 
ravens, a ratter of turkeys, and a company of parrots.Barbara 
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