What do you call a group of owls?

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What do you call a group of owls?

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Last updated Sep 18 2025.
Originally posted Sep 11 2025 2:02 PM.

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A parliament.

"a "Parliament" of owls refers to their perceived knowledge and wisdom. Owl groups also have been called a "Congress" or "stare," but the 1950s children's book "The Chronicles of Narnia" (which later became a movie), cemented Parliament as the go-to word for a group of owls."

https://www.the-daily-record.com/story/sports/outdoors/2022/05/16/wise-old-owl-parliament-reason-frogs-and-snakes-knot/9713698002/

Sep 11 2025, 5:28 PM

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Answer 1

"Parliament" is technically correct but mostly used in a literary or whimsical sense. In everyday conversation or in birdwatching, people usually just say "a group of owls" or "a flock of owls" rather than "a parliament of owls."

Besides, owls are mostly solitary, so you rarely see them in parliaments, flocks, groups or councils anyway.

Answer 2

These colorful terms, "a Parliament of owls," or "an exaltation of larks," were never technically "official" and were never regularly used, certainly not by zoologists or ornithologists and so forth, who rather roll their eyes at them.

See below:

https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/brian-wildsmith-birds-company-terms/

What do you call a group of owls?

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