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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.
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 ...
The Australian magpie, Cracticus tibicen, is conspicuously "pied", with black and white plumage reminiscent of a Eurasian magpie. It is a member of the family Artamidae and not a corvid. The magpie-robins , members of the genus Copsychus , have a similar "pied" appearance, but they are Old World flycatchers , unrelated to the corvids.
Collective nouns for a group of ravens (or at least the common raven) include "unkindness" [9] ... Ravens, Magpies and Jays. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre.
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. [1] [2] [3] In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or corvids.
An archaic collective noun for a group of jackdaws is a "clattering". [17] ... Western jackdaws sometimes mob and drive off larger birds such as European magpies, ...
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").
Magpie, a settlement in the municipality of Rivière-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada; Magpie Creek, a stream in North Dakota, USA; Magpie Lane, Oxford, a very narrow historic lane in central Oxford, England