Show sportsmen have language sportsmen havo have a almost most developed a language of their own in designating groups of particular animals and birds for instance observes the american wildlife institute it would be high hig h treason to refer to a bunch of partridges one should always say a covey when referring ot members of tho the partridge family then there is a nide of pheasants a wisp of snipe a flight flig ht of doves a muster of peacocks a of herons a brood of grouse and a plump of wild fowl of course there is also ain always a stand of plovers a gaggle of geese a bevy of quail a cast of hawks a skulk of foxes a pack of wolves a sleuth of bears |