Re: Collective bird nouns and heron tucker.

["Martin and Frances" <>]

I decided to try wikipedia for a source of collective nouns (they are on-line which augmented my trepidation about admitting to reading anything to do with Readers Digest).  They gave quite a good list but said the most extensive (often they thought fictitious) list was at  http://www.nzbirds.com/more/nounsr.html.  Many things get insulted by being called "a parliament of ..." 

 

Getting back to birds.  We were at Jamaica Bay this afternoon and watched a juvenile heron (possibly black-crowned night-heron) attempting to predate a saucer sized terrapin by grabbing it by the neck.  As far as we could determine the bird gave up but I think the terrapin would at the least have a severe headache.  Has anyone ever seen an Australian heron of any species take on a turtle?

 

Martin