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This is the combined list, accompanied, of course, by lots of photos of cute robins because you can never have too many robins! Which name is your favourite?
a round of robins
a breast of robins
a blush of robins
a bobbin of robins
a carol of robins
a gift of robins
a reliant of robins
a riot of robins
a rouge of robins
a ruby of robins
a rabble of robins
a red of robbins
a squabble of robins
a rash of robins
a hood of robins
https://earthstar.blog/2016/04/01/a-collective-noun-for-robins/
I may have to go with a reliant of robins because:
Harker
(13,880 posts)Or a wonder.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Harker
(13,880 posts)The rafters offer a bird's eye view.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)A rafter of turkeys.
An unkindness of ravens.
A kettle of hawks.
I likes me some collective nouns for birds.
3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)...an exaltation of larks.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)A pitying of doves
A flamboyance of flamingos
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)The more common word is "clowder," but "glaring" sometimes works better.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)After they are done glaring, they pounce. It just makes sense.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)Just wanted to add that one.
Laffy Kat
(16,356 posts)(Sorry)
Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)They are intelligent and mischievous. I welcome that in a bird. I feel like we are on the same side.
sarge43
(28,939 posts)A charm of finches
A company of parrots
A siege of herons
A convocation of eagles
Or a cast of hawks
One I thought of: A confusion of cockatiels
Harker
(13,880 posts)Don't distract me, Proudlib72... I'm thinking about boobies.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Watch out now!
sl8
(13,584 posts)Harker
(13,880 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Maybe there's a different collective noun for North American robins.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Marthe48
(16,692 posts)Harker
(13,880 posts)sl8
(13,584 posts)First comment on the linked site:
I asked this question as part of our Christmas quiz (what should the collective name for robins be?) and my grandmother absolutely smashed it with:
A Batman of Robins
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)What do you call a group of Robins? A 'ROUND' of Robins | BTO ...
https://www.bto.org/community/news/.../what-do-you-call-group-robins-round-robins
And just in case you're wondeing about other birds...........
When a flock consists of just one type of bird or closely related species of birds, specialized terms are often used to describe the group. The most colorful and creative flock names include:
Birds of Prey (hawks, falcons): cast, cauldron, kettle
Bobolinks: chain
Buzzards: wake
Cardinals: college, conclave, radiance, Vatican
Catbirds: mewing
Chickadees: banditry
Chickens: peep
Cormorants: flight, gulp, sunning, swim
Coots: cover
Cowbirds: corral, herd
Cranes: herd, dance
Creepers: spiral
Crossbills: crookedness, warp
Crows: murder, congress, horde, muster, cauldron
Doves: bevy, cote, flight, dule
Ducks: raft, team, paddling, badling
Eagles: convocation, congregation, aerie
Emus: mob
Finches: charm, trembling
Flamingos: flamboyance, stand
Frigatebirds: fleet, flotilla
Game Birds (quail, grouse, ptarmigan): covey, pack, bevy
Geese: skein, wedge, gaggle, plump
Godwits: omniscience, prayer, pantheon
Grosbeaks: gross
Gulls: colony, squabble, flotilla, scavenging, gullery
Herons: siege, sedge, scattering
Hoatzins: herd
Hummingbirds: charm, glittering, shimmer, tune, bouquet, hover
Jays: band, party, scold, cast
Kingbirds: coronation, court, tyranny
Kingfishers: concentration, relm, clique, rattle
Knots: cluster
Lapwings: deceit
Larks: bevy, exaltation, ascension, happiness
Loons: asylum, cry, water dance
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https://www.thespruce.com/flock-names-of-groups-of-birds-386827
Google is your friend
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Those little buggers are annoying and peck holes in the side of your house, so I'm going to call them an "annoyance of nuthatches."
Harker
(13,880 posts)were Beaky and Igor (eyegore), pygmy nuthatches. No pygmies in PA. Sniff.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I would shoe them away. Ten seconds later, they would be back. They are little stinkers! Flickers do more damage, but nuthatches are persistent.
Harker
(13,880 posts)One early morning I awoke to the sound of a hummingbear ripping the siding off. He was clean through to the drywall in the kitchen when I scared him off.
Juvenile punk.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Well, at least they are pleasant, humming nice tunes, while being destructive.
Harker
(13,880 posts)sugar water... hummingbear feeders. They guzzle the stuff, and they'll rip them off from dizzying heights.
Flickers out here are yellow, rather than red, shafted.
We have jars of white-breasted nuthatches, but red-breasted are infrequent.
A quiver of flickers?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)The flickers I've seen have been sort of sandy brown and mottled: the northern flicker. I volunteer a "fuck you" of flickers. They are obstinate birds!
They're as difficult to photograph as jackelopes!
The colorful 'shafts' are in the tail. There was one on the CU campus for a couple of years running that hammered on the metal housing of a street lamp during mating season. He could be heard from quite a distance.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)WTF? I had a dude come out and put up a piece of sheet metal to cover a flicker hole. He said the flicker might come back and try hammering anyway, but it was going to ruin his beak. I was fine with him ruining his little pecker!
Laffy Kat
(16,356 posts)I kept wondering which neighbor was using a jackhammer so early before I figured it out. It was right on the side of my house next to my bedroom. It still visits from time to time. I do enjoy watching them from afar, however.
Harker
(13,880 posts)so long as they aren't housepeckers.
Ohiogal
(31,669 posts)Sounds like the Republican National Headquarters
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Sounds like butt hurt MAGAts.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)Rollo
(2,559 posts)Harker
(13,880 posts)and, as you noted, not flockers. I see an occasional dust-up, but they're decided pretty quickly, and the loser scrams.