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collective nouns

To: "John Leonard" <>, "Birding-aus" <>
Subject: collective nouns
From: "Ricki Coughlan" <>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:35:48 +1100
G'day all
 
Visitors to Broome Bird Observatory over the past few years will recall the playing of this game with great fondness. Many names for flocks were unmentionable and many of them hillarious. Two of my faves were "a fistful of Dollarbirds" and "a handful of Boobies".
 
Happy birding
Ricki Coughlan
Belrose, Sydney
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