What do you call a group of... (1 Viewer)

[samuel walker]

kettle

If I'm not mistaken a "kettle" is the word used to describe the vertical funnel formed when any raptors (not only vultures) gather to exploit a thermal and circle within it.

Thanks Jason I've heard kettle go with hawk turkey and black vulture
Sam

 

[samuel walker]

Can I have seen a twist of terns
Sam

 

[samuel walker]

So much red it must be a college of Cardinals
Sam

 

[Bluetail]

A sunburn of Redheads
A tremble of Quails
A backbite of Snipe
A coven of Merlins
A glimpse of peeps
A gossip of Tattlers
An alacrity of Swifts
A Monica of Sapsuckers
A vomit of Rubythroats
A putrefaction of Greenfinches
A forge of Yellowhammers

 

[Bluetail]

So much red it must be a college of Cardinals
Sam

I like that! :clap:

I know it's a genuine term, but "a sedge of Bitterns" always sounds a bit ridiculous to me. I mean, has anyone ever seen one?

 

[gthang]

how about a "Funeral" of Mourning Doves???

 

[Darren Oakley-Martin]

A ideology of Starlings?

And following on from recent correspondence-

A bomb-site of Black Redstarts.