flocks

We even know that some species nested in 'flocks' and cared for their young, even after hatching.

Casey Luskin on Kitzmiller & Information 2010

(Even the “cockroach as socialist” argument begins to break down when you consider that it has been recently discovered that the actions of birds in flocks are predominantly individual, with the flocks themselves serving as market mechanisms that enable such groups to fly together more efficiently over long distances.)

You Can Do Anything You Put Your Mind To: A Noble Lie?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

White Fang was to her a wolf, the hereditary marauder who had preyed upon her flocks from the time sheep were first herded and guarded by some dim ancestor of hers.

The Southland 2010

Passenger pigeons once traveled around the United States in flocks so large, they could reportedly block out the sun over a town for eight hours.

Three Ways to Drive an Animal to Extinction - Boing Boing 2009

It might make the likes of John Prescott, Dennis Skinner and Ed Balls happy but one suspects that the assembled ranks of The Ovine & The Bovine who have been transported north in flocks and herds to campaign will have found the tone of their campaign deeply embarrassing.

Harman: Enemy of the Family 2008

Abraham, for example, was rich in flocks and in silver and gold.

The Value of Real Work 2008

In the fall, adult gobblers patch up their breeding-season differences and band together, sometimes in flocks of a dozen or more.

Autumn Gobblers: How To Hunt Turkeys in the Fall 2008

It might make the likes of John Prescott, Dennis Skinner and Ed Balls happy but one suspects that the assembled ranks of The Ovine & The Bovine who have been transported north in flocks and herds to campaign will have found the tone of their campaign deeply embarrassing.

Archive 2008-05-18 2008

Those white birds whose name I don't know will be winging it south in flocks overhead, heading back to the zoo, or to the trees of the Santa Maria hills, or wherever they go.

36 Hours in Your Part of Mexico 2007

I had thought attempting to buy a single bird, but peacocks, like other fowl, thrive best in flocks or at least pairs, and $200 for a pair of grown birds was beyond my means.

Peacock Egg Hatching regina doman 2007