Malvern Save The Children Christmas Quiz
Quizzes & Puzzles1 min ago
Which gatherings of birds are described by these terms? Tok, Sedge, Convocation, Bazaar, Mutation
its driving me mad :(
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Tok: Capercaillies or Grouse
Sedge: Bitterns, Cranes, Dunkadoos or Herons
Bazaar: Falcons, Guillemots, Murres, Owls or Ravens
Mutation: Thrushers
Got all this from Collective Nouns for Birds on the New Zealand Birds site. The list starts as it means to go on with a "diacriticality of accntors" and carries on in similar vein until it gets to an "incontinence of yellowlegs".
I just wonder what the collective noun is for people who think up names like this for collective nouns.