Maybe there aren't questions here, merely inspirations.
Searching, slight poetic inspiration, for a Murmuration of Starlings. The words, not the linked video. Thinking, perhaps, that the word murmuration was perhaps generic to a flock of birds, a specific flight pattern, which led me to the Wiki on the different words for groups (generic: flock, specific: as follows...) of birds, some interesting associations related no doubt to the impression made upon witnesses. A murder of crows, easy, an exaltation of Larks? Genius. And the Tidings born by Magpies, or the Watch of Nightingales?
- Crows - Murder
- Larks - Exaltation
- Magpies - Tidings
- Nightingales - Watch
- Owls, Rooks - Parliament
- Parrots - Pandemonium
- Peacocks - Muster
- Ravens - Unkindness
- Snipe - Walk or Wisp
- Sparrows - Host
- Starlings - Murmuration
- Swans - Game or Wedge
Find more on the Wikipedia Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds. Inspiring, after it's fashion.