The Magpie's Nest by Taffy Thomas

Author:Taffy Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press

This story leads to my next section of bird folklore, where you’ll see the birds in full colour and discover the wonderful names we have for their gatherings.

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WHEN BIRDS GATHER

As storytellers, we exist in a living oral tradition. Since the Middle Ages, folk have delighted in using collective nouns for gatherings of birds. Some of these are well known, like a murmuration of starlings; some are more obscure, like a siege of herons. Some make historical references, some literary and many poetic. These terms vary from region to region and from person to person. Those that follow are some of the author’s and illustrator’s favourites.

If you like them, please take them and use them in your everyday speech to share the delight.

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