"A clattering of choughs"

David Stockhoff · 08 Jan 2009, 14:20 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:20:10 -0500
Subject: (urth) "A clattering of choughs"
In-Reply-To: <mailman.7671.1231423220.15759.urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>
References: <mailman.7671.1231423220.15759.urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>
Message-ID: <49660B9A.3000004 at verizon.net>

Oh, that's good. I'll have to bookmark it.

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now you done made me look it up.
"A clattering of choughs"
"Clattering" is much better than "unkindness", IMHO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds

~witz


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