Hope this ain't a reinyartnation, though I fear it may be....
My uncle sent my mother a list of what he calls "some traditional English names for a group of animals or birds" (though birds ARE animals, yes? perhaps he was thinking "mammals"....). Some seem rather odd to me (foxes and boars in particular, though I find most of them rather peculiar) and I wonder if anyone here is familiar with them? are they *really "traditional"? The only ones I thought I remembered hearing/seeing before were the larks and the crows.
A deceit of lapwings
A sort of mallards
A business of ferrets
An exultation of larks
A murder of crows
A murmuration of starlings
A leash of foxes
A bale of turtles
A cast of hawks
A chattering of choughs
A singular of boars
A congregation of plovers
A convocation of eagles
A dule of doves
A pace of asses
A richness of martens
A sedge of cranes
A stuck of jellyfish
A tidings of magpies
Please feel free to add to this list, too. The only extra ones I can think of are
A pride of lions
A crash (or is it clash?!) of rhinos
A parliament of owls
A pod of whales
A school of fish (but Lord knows what gatherings of different species of fish might be - this could be fun!)
