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Goshawks

A group of goshawks can be called: flight

Collective nouns
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Category
Animals
Subcategory
Birds
High confidence
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Book of St Albans
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Collective nouns for goshawks

a flight of goshawks

Book of St Albans

A group of birds, especially doves (pigeons), goshawks or swallows.

Confidence
high
Attestation
historical-source, wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
Also used for
angels, birds, butterflies, doves, hawks, herons, pigeons, stairs, swallows, cormorants
Also spelled
Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
6 sources
  1. Wikipedia - List of animal names
  2. Elliot Stock - The Boke of Saint Albans
  3. Oxford University Press - AskOxford: G
  4. Wiktionary - flight
  5. Wiktionary - Appendix:English collective nouns
  6. Book of Saint Albans (1486) - The companyes of bestys & foules

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