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Bird Groups or Not!

We are all familiar with phrases like a kettle of hawks and a covey of quail to describe a group of birds. Well the readers of Wild Bird News a while back (1990) added a few more to the list.

...	a ladle of dippers
...	a dash of bitterns
...	a gallon of petrels
...	a Rockefeller of oystercatchers
...	a pack of Larks
...	a U of terns
...	a marathon of roadrunners
...	a family of partridge
...	a spread of eagles
...	a civilization of Inca Doves
...	a liturgy of Vesper Sparrows
...	a depression of Blue Grouse
...	a revenge of Montezuma Quail
...	a grumbling of grouse
...	a scaffold of Ladder-backed Woodpeckers
...	a reel of Virginia Rails
...	a cushion of Pintails
...	a hobbling of Limpkin
...	a trap of boobys
...	a ballet of nutcrackers
...	a statutory of mynass
...	a bushel of Acorn Woodpeckers
...	a gulp of swallows
...	a construction of cranes
...	a bunch of Olive Sparrows

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