An Exaltation of Larks

Prompt: Murmuration

A murmuration of starlings is a flock of starlings. In my experience, they squawk more than murmur, but such is the way of naming groups of birds. Some other remarkable, lovely, and inexplicable group names include:

• A bellowing of bullfinches.
• A wake of buzzards.
• A paddling of doves.
• A convocation of eagles.
• A charm of goldfinches.
• A confusion of guinea fowl.
• A scold of jays.
• A deceit of lapwings.
• An exaltation of larks.
• A fleet of mudhens.
• A watch of nightingales.
• A parliament of owls.
• An unkindness of ravens.
• A fling of sandpipers.
• A spring of teal.
• A mutation of thrush.
• A pitying of turtle doves.
• A descent of woodpeckers.

And while I wanted to keep this list to birds, did you know that a group of lice is called a flock? Did you want to know that?