How in the world did someone come up with the idea of calling a flock of crows a murder of crows? Why not call a flock of crows a FLOCK of crows? However, it is unlikely we will be able to change everything to flocks with the Supreme Court busy deciding cases of great import and gridlock in our Federal government. But we can legally change the names of the types of birds to something more interesting. I humbly propose the following:
A Murder of Crows becomes A Cacophony of Crows
We then have a, or an
bird – flock name
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blackbird – buboe
bobolinks – Big Mac
boobies – booger
budgies – bean dip
buntings – bunion
burrowing owls – cacophony
ducks – DNA
elephants – finch (an elephant is technically not a bird.)
falcon – fart sack
finchs – elephant
hawks – hemarhoid
jays – jock itch
larks – lithograph
loons – Facebook
pigeons – pizza
starlings – lutefisk
swans – sarcasm
woodpeckers – wart
You’ll have to excuse me, a bunion of buntings just flew by.
