Glorious, isn’t it? Since it’s Friday, I’ve decided to treat myself and write about collective nouns and animals. Here are more:

a coalition of cheetahs

a herd of chamois

an intrusion of cockroaches (seems appropriate, yes?)

a convocation of eagles

a trembling of finch

a bundle of frogs

a tower of giraffes

a bloat of hippopotamus

a charm of hummingbirds (or you can use ‘a troubling of hummingbirds’; this is for a friend of mine who claims she was attacked by a hummingbird and still suffers the trauma)

a risk of lobsters

an amalgamation of pandas

a coterie of prairie dogs

a crash of rhinoceros

a squad of squirrels

a murmuration of starlings

a lump of toads

a squirm of worms

and a dazzle of zebras

There are many more collective nouns on this Squidoo webpage. I’d like to suggest a new collective noun: a ‘beauty of people’ signifying a group of people engaged in unexpected acts of kindness and beauty. What type of collective noun would you like to suggest?

Happy weekend!

* ‘butterlies’ corrected to ‘butterflies’ April 10, 2014