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Quail

A group of quail can be called: bevy

Collective nouns
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Category
Animals
Subcategory
Birds
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Book of St Albans
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Collective nouns for quail

a bevy of quail

Book of St Albans
Confidence
high
Attestation
historical-source, wikipedia-cited
Also used for
birds, ladies, roe deer, swans
Also spelled
Beuy (1486)
7 sources
  1. Wikipedia - List of animal names
  2. Zoological Society of San Diego - Animal group names
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - Common Questions: What Do You Call a Group of...?
  4. Elliot Stock - The Boke of Saint Albans
  5. Oxford Dictionaries - What do you call a group of ...?
  6. J. White - The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
  7. Book of Saint Albans (1486) - The companyes of bestys & foules

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