a covey of birds
A brood or family of partridges (family ), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe ) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus ). A group of other birds.
- Subject
- bird (birds)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- Couy (1486)