Flocks

We even know that some species nested in 'flocks' and cared for their young, even after hatching. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (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.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Abraham, for example, was rich in flocks and in silver and gold. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the fall, adult gobblers patch up their breeding-season differences and band together, sometimes in flocks of a dozen or more. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Regina Doman (2007)

Birds of Paradise, which settle in flocks on the trees at sunset and sunrise, uttering this very cry. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Usually, they appear in flocks after one of them links to your entry through a friends-locked post of their own, saying, “Would you look at this bullshit?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

For those of you who've never gotten one, they arrive in flocks when you post an entry about how your brother just suffocated in the process of an attempted puppy-raping. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Wildlife: The Redwing Blackbirds are gathering in flocks of three dozen or more. ❋ Michael Evans (2004)

The pheasants are gathered in flocks of about 6 or more. ❋ Michael Evans (2004)

It's not just that waterfowl swarm the Canadian prairies in flocks of biblical proportions, or that limits run as high as eight ducks, eight dark geese, and 20 light geese a day. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Altogether it was a bit of fairyland, a spot for nymphs and sea-gods to disport upon: you might have heard, without astonishment, old Proteus calling his flocks with the writhed conch; and Aphrodite seated in her shell would have been only a fit and proper climax for its loveliness. ❋ Unknown (2003)