mustering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of muster

plural musterings

1. A bringing together, as of livestock for counting.

   They are demonstrations in the literal sense: musterings of potential voters, beauty pageants of potential contributors, inventories of the ethnic loyalties that count most in a metropolitan area of a thousand intermingled peoples.

   2008 June 1, Paul Vitello, “For Parade Celebrating Israel, an Effort to Include Those Closest to It”, in New York Times

2. collectiveA group of storks.

   all the cranes standing like a mustering of storks dipped their jibs in salute

   2014, Rodney J. Croft, Churchil's Final Farewell

   2 more examples

   I don't think an entire mustering of storks would have been able to peck away at her hostility.

   2017, Karen Duffy, Backbone, Arcade Publishing, page 55

   The last known stork died here in 1971 and, in 1985, a new mustering of storks was introduced from Russia.

   (Can we date this quote?), “Bird-watching in Japan”, in Japan.travel, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2026