I’m sitting here at my laptop and looking out of the window, where the rooks are all congregating in one tree and making a real racket. So I looked up the collective noun – apparently we can say a ‘parliament, building, clamour or storytelling’ of rooks.
Love it. Think I’ll settle for ‘parliament’. The noise is most reminiscent of the House of Commons at PM’s Questions 
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🙂 I do love rooks and crows in fact…:)what excellent collective terms for them!!! I rather like a ‘clamour’ or ‘storytelling’ of rooks… but they are all wonderful terms!
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Aren’t they just – I love it – sort of puts us in touch with our forebears and the way they thought about such things :yes:
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Appropriate and a lot of rooking of the people over theyears.
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YES INDEEDY :yes:
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:)) that’s what I meant but Id been reading pgwoods comment and that’s it crows was in my head lol
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I know 😉
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I have always loved the term A Parliament of Crows and thought it very apt.
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… or of rooks … 😉 :wave:
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:yes: Have always found this one most appropriate…..Lovely poem….Hugs!
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Nature is always offering us gifts of one sort or another – all we need is our senses to be open!
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We have often seen the equivalent with sea birds on rocks, or, promontories. I am sure I have posted a picture or two in the past. Apart from evocations of rumbustious humanoid activity in a gathering under Gothic roofs the meeting of birds is very sociable, most of the time.
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Yes, they are like a rowdy party … one that I would rather avoid 😉 although gulls annoy me far more!
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Gulls go for a competitive get-together when food is in the offing, perhaps a bit more like the parliamentarians you were thinking about.
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Any annoying group you can think of!
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We don’t have rooks in my corner of London, but we do have carrion crows, for which the collective noun is a “murder”.
Rooks, crows, magpies, jays are corvidae – members of the crow family. Not the nicest birds!
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No they ain’t although I prefer them to the seagulls who are the robber barons of the bird world in my experience!
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Lovely poem.
A parliament of rooks sounds right. Is a rook another name for crow ?
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Nope – crows are different although they belong to the same ‘family’. They are more solitary than rooks (hence the phrase ‘crow’s nest’) and the collective noun is ‘a murder of crows’ – no idea why!
http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdguide/families/crows.aspx
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