Signs of St. Helena

Remember we're at sea at the moment, but still have lots to share about St. Helena Island. The weather today, however, is not conducive to writing long blogs. We edited all our pics each day at St. Helena and sent them to Gentry, so we'll  make this a photo-intensive blog … adding to our already large collection of signs.

Feathered Friend Collectives

I've written about collective nouns for animals before. I've even set up a whole page for them on our website. Some are pretty mundane … a herd of cows, a flock of sheep or a pack of wolves. The ones that intrigue me the most, however, are the collective nouns for specific species of birds. Some of them are descriptive and others are off the wall. See what I mean.

A confusion of guinea fowl

A desert of lapwings

A gulp of swallows

A descent of woodpeckers

A wake of buzzards

An opera of canaries

A mob of emus

A weight of albatross

A fling of sandpipers

A wobble of ostriches

By the way, a great source of collective nouns for birds is New Zealand Birds.