Leo,
A group of Killdeer is known as a 'season'. Though I suppose that if
it's really hot and humid, one could get away with referring to the
flock as a 'cauldron'.
Best to all,
Dan Haas
West Annap
On Thursday, August 27, 2009, Leo Weigant <> wrote:
> Single whimbrel still there at 4:45
> amidst many killdeer & horned larks.
>
> ( -- is there one of those quaint old collective
> names for killdeer? I think a "murder" of
> killdeer has already been pre-empted by,
> by crows? Janet Two Crows will know)
>
> Thanks, Les.
>
> Leo Weigant
>
> On Aug 27, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Les Roslund wrote:
>
>
> At 11:00 a.m. today (8/27) the Whimbrel was still at Central Sod farms,
> along with large numbers of Killdeer and one Lesser Yellowlegs. The bird
> was best seen through a scope because it was foraging beyond the irrigation
> pipes of the farthest south sod field of the place
>
> Les Roslund
> Talbot County
> Easton MD 21601
>
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