I’m dumber than a wake of buzzards

A while back, a local woman alerted me to a lot of ibises nesting in some trees in our county. And by a lot, I mean thousands. She called it a “rookery.”

As a self-proclaimed expert in English, I then assumed that a rookery was the collective noun used to describe a group of ibises. Boy, I were wrong.

A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally birds. A grouping of ibises is either a “congregation,” “a stand,” or a “wedge.”