a chattering of starlings
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- choughs
Subject · Animals → Birds
Starlings
A group of starlings can be called: chattering · murmuration
- Collective nouns
- 2
- Category
- Animals
- Subcategory
- Birds
- High confidence
- 2
- Book of St Albans
- 1
Collective nouns for starlings
a murmuration of starlings
A flock of starlings, in particular when swarming in swirling patterns.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Murmuracōn (1486)
8 sources
- Wikipedia - List of animal names
- Oxford Dictionaries - What do you call a group of ...?
- Zoological Society of San Diego - Animal group names
- U.S. Geological Survey Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - Common Questions: What Do You Call a Group of...?
- Elliot Stock - The Boke of Saint Albans
- Wiktionary - murmuration
- Wiktionary - Appendix:English collective nouns
- Book of Saint Albans (1486) - The companyes of bestys & foules
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