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A parliament of rooks derives from the way the birds noisily congregate in their nests in tall trees; an exaltation of larks is a poetic comment on the climb of the skylark high into the sky while uttering its twittering song; a murmuration of starlings is a muted way to describe the chattering of a group of those birds as they come into roost each evening; unkindness of ravens refers to an old legend that ravens push their young out of the nest to survive as best they can; a spring of teal is an apt description of the way they bound from their nests when disturbed.
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