From group to troupe Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Doug Pinch, newsman for Nimbin FM102.3, has been searching for a collective noun for roosters: “Like a murder of crows, a parliament of owls and my favourite, an ostentation of peacocks. Google’s first entry reads: ‘Unfortunately, there is no special name for a collective of roosters’. I have asked for help from the local Nimbin Bush Theatre, which has been overrun with roosters and their cacophony. The street talk is that kind-hearted locals can’t possibly dispatch the male chooks that their hens hatch, so they drop them off in the theatre’s grounds. One suggestion why there is no collective noun for roosters is that they generally don’t live long enough to form a group. Except at Nimbin’s Bush Theatre.”