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Yoohoo! Milum, where you at? Last night I saw a huge group of bats, hundreds of them, swooping and circling, spliting and recombining like a cyclone of bats. What do you call a group of bats, especially a flying, swooping, circling cyclone of bats?[/Wordwind imitation] 
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Here's a suggestion (a bit wordwindy, but): AN INVERTED WITCH'S HAT OF BATS  As far as the "cloud of bats" goes, that's pretty good. But it should be a "dark cloud of bats."
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>AN INVERTED WITCH'S HAT OF BATS
Wouldn't a bucket do just as well - "a bucket of bats" - has kindova nice ring about it ...
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Let's be obvious - a battery of bats. When I was in Philippines, our unit was quartered in a
tower on top of the huge University of Santo Tomas building. Many minor eaarthquakes had made
cracks in the cement of the building, and though these were quite narrow, they were
shelter to thousands of bats, which would emerge at twilight. I have never heard of anything
like it in the US. I was glad to see them, because there were billions of mosquitoes as result of
the Japanese sabotage of the sewerage system. They bred in puddles everywhere. The
corpsmen in hospital beneath us when on duty at night amused themselves by trying with brooms to
knock down bats flying in the corridors, which should have been forbidden since they were
catching mosquitoes that might have transmitted malaria to patients.
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Ah, wwh, that is the best of all! If you just coined it, terrific! And your story of the Philippines is one worth remembering.
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Personal to consuelo. If you are not consuelo do not read the paragraph below and skip to the part that begins..." Well yes, I'm glad you asked..."-> Blast it Consue!, did some Angel with a warped sense of humor appoint you to embarrass me in front of my peer and my ten thousand friends? Now I'll have to bluff my way through this answer...Geewiz. <- Well yes, I'm glad you asked consuelo, many people have asked me that same question. I remember one time back in the seventies I was caving with Merlin Tutle, the world's foremost bat authority, in Sauta Cave in Alabama when someone asked me that same question...mmm?...Wait! I got a great idea! I will email Merlin and we will get an up-to-date answer straight from the great batman's mouth, so-to-speak. Yeah, and for his amusement I'll send him the names that have been suggested here. Let's see... bucket of bats - jmh
battery of bats- wwh
swarm of bats-RhubardCommando
inverted witch hat of bats,
dark cloud of bats - Wordwind
cyclone of bats - consueloOff to email, will post his response. - mw
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Don't forget:
a flash of bats
a wain of bats
a slug of bats
a flutter of bats
a wander of bats
an insanity of bats
TEd
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I was gonna suggest "a belfry of bats" but that doesn't cover a flying, swooping, circling cyclone of bats....
If you can't see the bright side, polish the dull side.
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