Wildlife: Avian LingoCan you name groups of Birds?!!, 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
While looking in the same book, I thought you might like to see one sample of the range of different names some birds have. We were talking about Jackdaws, collective name being:
A train of Jackdaws.
Well here is the list of names (a short list as the book goes) of Jackdaw names:
Jackdaw; caddaw; cadder; caddy;
carder in East Anglia;
cathedral parson in Somerset;
cawdaw in Suffolk;
chank in Devon;
chatterjack in Somerset;
chough in Cornwall;
corrachan; cottiag;
daa in Sussex;
daw in Sussex;
Jack (immature);
Jackdaa Hertfordshire;
jacker in Somerset;
Jacky; John Daw;
ka wattie in Scotland;
kae in Scotland;
kay in Scotland;
I looked out the only picture I have taken of a Jackdaw Corvus monedula, which was taken in Wales in 1998: