> Hmm Ern, isn't an eider a type of duck? I just went to check and the one I > was looking for was 'a flush of ducks'. It's more fascinating then I thought > it'd be- I did a Yahoo search on "collective noun" and ducks > and got > http://www.nzbirds.com/Collective.html > & > http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/numbers.htm > and I must say it's a bountiful poet's resource! One for ducks was "a > badelynge of ducks" and I have no clue what a badelynge or a badling is, but > ooh.. :) And one I thought was fascinating, "an RSVP of egrets". Wouldn't > have thought of it in a million years! 2 more entries in my bookmarks.. Btw, > Tom- "a plague of photographers" alliterative and apt! > > Cheers, > Ryan
I remember "eider" as a collective from years ago; I recall noticing that it was the same as a variety of duck. But -- the site I found with some of these interesting terms http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/help/faq/animals/names.htm didn't have "eider". The Concise Oxford didn't back me up, "eider"; so I can only assume that "eider" I remember it wrong, or was given wrong information Way Back When by some source. Probably a substandard textbook. :-)
