A nye of pheasants...

There’s an estate agent in Hungerford called Nye and Co, whose logo is a pheasant. As a kid I read about the collective nouns for different birds (most of which nobody uses), and a nye of pheasants was one. I remember a few others: a murder of crows, a covy of partridges, a bevy of quails, a watch of nightingales, a parliament of owls, a murmuration of starlings and a spring of teal. A group of wrens is called a herd, apparently: little used because wrens don’t congregate in numbers… just singly or in pairs. About the only collective noun I could use without blushing is a charm of goldfinches…