We celebrate our favourite collective nouns for birds, from the weird and the wonderful to the most curious.
Variously idiosyncratic, intriguing and often unerringly apt in their descriptions of gatherings of birds, animals and people a damning of jurors, an incredulity of cuckolds — most of the collective nouns we use date back to the mid 15th century.
And here are some of our favourites:
- A wake of buzzards
- A confusion of chiffchaffs
- A chattering of choughs
- A…
