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Collective noun for Wedgies?

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Subject: Collective noun for Wedgies?
From: Tim Jones <>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:25:29 +0000
A 'thin end'?

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> Subject: FW: [Birding-Aus] Collective noun for Wedgies?
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:41:33 +0930
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> Tony
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> Best I can find , and this is for raptors in general, is aerie, cast, or
> kettle. I think aerie would be the eagle one.
>
> Tony
>
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>  On Behalf Of Syd Curtis
> Sent: Monday, 30 August 2010 9:58 PM
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Collective noun for Wedgies?
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> Anyone got a collective noun for Wedge-tailed Eagles?
>
> Many (30+) years ago I was inspecting an area out Charleville way for
> possible reservation as a national park. Sandstone country with spectacular
> gorges. I sought access through an adjoining grazing property and the
> lessee kindly drove me to the rim of the very large gorge that was the
> boundary of his property. (Porcupine Ck gorge, maybe. My memory is a bit
> hazy now.)
>
> But what I do remember very clearly is that we were nearly to the rim of the
> gorge when my host spotted a Wedge-tailed Eagle perched in a low tree. He
> immediately stopped and shot at it with his rifle.
>
> I was delighted that he missed and the eagle flew off unharmed. I was even
> more delighted a few minutes later to look over the gorge and see a large
> number of Wedgies wheeling around in the gorge; twenty or thirty or so, I
> guess. Flock? Don't think so. "Squadron" maybe? :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Syd
>
> > From: Alan McBride <>
> > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:48:08 +1000
> > To: bob gosford <>
> > Cc: NT Birds group <>, "Birding-Aus \(Forum\)"
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> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Spotted Harrier over Alice Springs - Eastside
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> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > I think I'd prefer "a rash of Spotted Harriers" ;-)
> >
> > Alan
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> > On 30/08/2010, at 18:46 , bob gosford wrote:
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> > After Christopher Watson and I saw a mob (a collective noun for a lot of
> > Spotted Harriers please!) of Spotted Harriers (and a pair of Swamp
> Harriers
> > near the airport) on our long days drive around greater Alice Springs last
> > Friday I'd just like to note that I spotted (geddit!?) a single Spotted
> > Harrier at some distance and height soaring over Eastside in Alice Springs
> > this morning.
> >
> > Black wing-tips and elevated dihedral - and recent sightings give me a
> > reasonable degree of certainty - which I hope to confirm over the next few
> > days.
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> > Any other inner suburban sightings in Alice Springs welcome.
> >
> > And I'll be keeping eyes and ears open for the first Channel-billed Cuckoo
> > reports in Alice Springs - or Darwin, Katherine and points in between -
> over
> > the coming weeks. I note that there was report on Birding-Aus earlier
> today
> > of a C-bC on the NSW mid-north coast earlier today.
> >
> > Cheers from an ornithologically abundant red centre...
> >
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