One is tempted to submit a picture or two of a family gathering in honor of the holiday season for this challenge, but I will stick with a different and perhaps more conventional interpretation of the theme.
These pictures are from our visit to La Langue de Barbarie near St. Louis in Senegal.
Here is a colony of seagulls.
Here is a flight of cormorants.
Finally, here is a squadron of pelicans.
I submit that these pictures of gatherings of birds fits the theme for the week.
Splattered Brains 
cool…I posted a gathering of cormorants and was wondering what it might be called. Now I know! Great photos of all the birds. I love the term for the pelican group too.
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Excellent choices all!
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