Baltimore Bird Club has a nice posting about groups of birds, some quite colorful (an unkindness of ravens, a pitying of doves).  Like is here: 
http://baltimorebirdclub.org/gnlist.html

Once upon a time a friend of mine and I spent some time creating potential names for a group of birders.  There were several good ones, most of which I can't remember - but I bet the folks on this list could come up with plenty! 

I think our all-time winner was "a bin of birders"   (binoculars.... bins... bin.... um...well, we tried). 

Joanne

Joanne Howl, DVM
West River, MD







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From: Jim Wilson <>
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Sent: Thu, Nov 4, 2010 6:53 pm
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Wild Turkeys - Queenstown


Many thanks to Melanie Lynch for pointing out that the official term for a multitude of turkeys is a rafter of turkeys. 
 
And the origin of Murder of Crows appears to be as follows: 
“A ‘murder’ of crows is based on the persistent but fallacious folk tale 
that crows form tribunals to judge and punish the bad behavior of a member 
of the flock. If the verdict goes against the defendant, that bird is killed 
(murdered) by the flock. The basis in fact is probably that occasionally 
crows will kill a dying crow who doesn’t belong in their territory or much 
more commonly feed on carcasses of dead crows. " 
 
Now to find out what a gathering of birders is called. 
 
Jim Wilson