When I asked for advice of avian collective nouns, several people advised me of relevant internet sites. Not being competent as a net surfer, I haven't looked at them but list them here for those who may wish to do so.
Bob Forsyth at Mt Isa tells us that -
1 The USA "About.com" hosted by Christine Tarski's
http://birding.about.com/hobbies/birding/library/weekly/aa032700b.htm
in her section Birding/Wild Birds on 25/04/00 had 58 collective nouns listed; and
2. The New Zealand "http://nzbirds.com/ listed 148 collective nouns for birds also on 25/04/00.
Carol Probets lists the following:
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~lizzie/html/collect.htm
http://www.comteck.com/~revenger/collectivenouns.html
http://www.swalson.com/infoseek/nouns.htm
Reg Clark (Australia, but I don¹t know where) writes -
A good reference for your inquiry is
And concerning net sites, he quotes from Ross as follows
Review the correspondence <http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/gnchat.html> on this matter from BirdChat.
View a list of whimsical group names <http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/gnwhimsy.html> submitted by chatters.
Visit the Baltimore Bird Club <http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/baltbird.html> Home Page.
If you're interested in group names for creatures other than birds, here are links to such lists:
The Fairfax County (Virginia) Library's Group Names <http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/homework/faq/animal.htm>
David Featherston's Collective Nouns: A (re-)collection. <http://biobase.dk/Embnetut/Personal/venereal.html> by
Mark Hesenflow's Collective terms - Animals <http://www.opus1.com/~ace/collect.html>
Melissa Kaplan's list of Collective Nouns <http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/beastly.html#Nouns>
>From Australia, Nudge's Group Terms <http://www.interline.com.au/~nudge/GroupTerms.html>
Neil Taylor's Birds in Numbers <http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/numbers.htm>
In Part 3, I'll get back to suggested collective nouns for Australian birds
Syd Curtis at Hawthorne in Queensland.
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