Collective Nounitude: Owls

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Owls

Rainbow Owls by ~life-take used with permission under  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license

Rainbow Owls by ~life-take (DeviantART) used with permission under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license

Most Common:

A Parliment of Owls

Alternatives:

A Stare of Owls

A Company of Owls

A Wisdom of Owls

A Study of Owls

A Shit of Owls -  :-(

An Athena of Owls

My suggestions:

A Hoot of Owls

A Silence of Owls (while flying)

A Spectacle of Owls

Hipster Owls by *thesimplyLexi (DeviantART) used with permission under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license

Hipster Owls by *thesimplyLexi (DeviantART) used with permission under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license

Reason for choice:

Ah….coz I obviously really dig owls?

Sources:

Wikipedia

www.ojohaven.com/collectives/

collectivenoun.co.uk

www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kennel/collectives.htm

all-sorts.org

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5 Responses »

  1. aaaa omg omg omg owls <3 ^.^
    the pictures are sooo cute, especially the hipster owls :D
    i think i like a spectacle of owls because no whenever i think of that i'll think of that picture :D
    loved this post :)

    • Hehe Thanks Vasiliki! I love the Hipster Owls too – I came up with a Spectacle of Owls first when I saw pic of a group of wide-eyed owlets and they looked like a team of bespectacled students ^-^ then when I found Hipster Owls on DeviantART it was a fantastic moment of owly serendipity ;)

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