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In the 19th century book, A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, a proverb concerning magpies is recited: "A single magpie in spring, foul weather will bring". The book further explains that this superstition arises from the habits of pairs of magpies to forage together only when the weather is fine.
Western jackdaws sometimes mob and drive off larger birds such as European magpies, common ravens, or Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus); one gives an alarm call which alerts its conspecifics to gather and attack as a group. [43] Occasionally, a sick or injured western jackdaw is mobbed until it is killed. [59]
The iris is pale in western jackdaw and dark in Daurian jackdaw. The two species are otherwise very similar in shape, calls, and behaviour. There is an argument for lumping the subgenus members as one species, but they do not interbreed where their ranges meet in Mongolia. [2]
The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites.
This list was originally spread out several pages of collective nouns, including one for "reptiles and amphibians", one for "fish, invertebrates, and plants", the existing one for "birds" and also several separate pages listing collective nouns by term and by subject. Over a lengthy period of time, myself and others merged the pages into this ...
Sotoners, Scum (collective, pejorative), Scummers Southend-on-Sea Mudlarks (the "beach" is a mudflat) South Ockendon Cock-in-Dungs (pejorative) South Shields Sand Dancers South Wales Hwntws (by people from North Wales) South Woodham Ferrers Sex With Friends (acronym, collective) Southern England Southern Fairies, Shandy Drinkers, United ...
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing. [1] For example, the collective noun "group" can be applied to people ("a group of people"), or dogs ("a group of dogs"), or objects ("a group of stones").
Hi! This article does not have a link to the Spanish Wikipedia. I tried to add it, but the situation is a little complicated, because there is not a one-to-one correspondence between the Spanish Wikipedia articles related to magpies and the English Wikipedia. This article is related to four Magpie genera (Pica, Urocissa, Cissa, Cyanopica).