So, the question is, what is a group of swans called? All I could come up with was a covey, but that's for quail or partridge. Another thought was a gaggle, but that's for geese. Although, swans are close to geese, I thought their group should have a more elegant name, like a soignee of swans. Is it just a gaggle, like the geese? Or do they have a special name for their group? Anxiously awaiting your reply.

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    by graytst on June 9, 2002 at 19:33:30 PDT
  
  : Very interesting post Parteegirl - and a great change of pace.:) In case the answer isn't immediately forthcoming you can always check with the Royal Authority on swans: David Barber, the Queen's Swan Marker. He'll be somewhere on the Thames during the 3rd week of July doing his annual swan Upping. Another impeccable source might be the Swan Warden: Professor Christopher Perrins of Oxford University.

  : And don't forget congratulations to HM the Queen on the occasion of her golden jubilee.

  
  

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    by RapierDuck on June 9, 2002 at 00:20:59 PDT
  
  : I was at a dinner party tonight and a question was posed and everyone turned to me, the "word person", for the answer. I didn't have the foggiest, but I said that if I posed it in the forum, I'd have the answer within the hour. Don't prove me wrong!

  Herd or whiteness of swans.