zinniabooklover
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omg! Isn't that just perfect?A crown of kingfishers!
True enough! I've only ever seen them solo.Can’t be too often you get to see that, can it?
I updated the list, I forgot half of it!No, I know most of these. I just hadn't stopped to consider if it was just an English language thing. And I mean, English English, not American English but also, not realising other languages didn't have their equivalent.
P.S. my top fave is the skylarks.
Well, that's disappointing. Yay! for the English language!I updated the list, I forgot half of it!
Here in Sweden, we call all gatherings of birds ‘flock’!
oh, good god, no! Most of those collective nouns don't get used at all. Some get used in literature or journalism. In everyday conversation, they mostly wouldn't crop up. I have a passing familiarity with some of them bc I read a lot but, for example, I'd forgotten about the skylark one.What I wonder about is, if you would say for example “wow, look at that big flock of starlings,” would you be corrected?
P.S. And I genuinely didn't know that 'murmuration' is officially the collective noun for starlings. Although I can understand why bc they do it better than the other birds. They definitely do it better than the crows, lol.What I wonder about is, if you would say for example “wow, look at that big flock of starlings,” would you be corrected?
pinkscarlet runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus)
Cool. Love it.Eichelhäher
= Acornscreamer lolol
my dinner today (with spaghetti and tomato-cheese.sauce= nom nom nom
Yeah, they ought to be the best. And those murmurations can be so freakingly large! How do they not collide with each other, one wonders.P.S. And I genuinely didn't know that 'murmuration' is officially the collective noun for starlings. Although I can understand why bc they do it better than the other birds. They definitely do it better than the crows, lol.
I had mac 'n cheese (but I didn't make it. I'm a crap cook, lol).my dinner today (with spaghetti and tomato-cheese.sauce= nom nom nom
Did you check out the video I posted? It's not my fave but it's quite short so does a decent job of showing how cool the starlings are when they get going.Yeah, they ought to be the best. And those murmurations can be so freakingly large! How do they not collide with each other, one wonders.
Africa’s Quelea quelea comes quite close, though.
These are flocks with up to a billion (en miljard) birds!
The aphids love them! Appreciated by mason and leafcutter bees, too.scarlet runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus)
Oh, here's a vid I posted back in September. Bit better than the one I posted earlier. It's only 2 mins. From the Netherlands.Yeah, they ought to be the best. And those murmurations can be so freakingly large! How do they not collide with each other, one wonders.
not only that; they taste yummyScarlet runner beans looking very pretty
Fuz you are always thinking about foodnot only that; they taste yummy