The EU is for the birds – POLITICO
by Paul Dallison · POLITICOWelcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column.
The name for a group of owls is a parliament. Presumably because, like politicians, they have deep-set eyes, toes that point in different directions and swallow their prey whole.
Alas, there is no collective noun for politicians (A scandal of politicians? A promise of politicians? A drone of politicians?). But if anyone decided to release some owls into a legislative chamber, it would be a parliament in a parliament, making headline writers the world over very happy.