Conglobulate

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Con`glob´u`late


v. i.1.To gather into a small round mass.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(10) Barry Baldwin, Johnson's Conglobulating Swallows, 41
Migration conservation: a view from above
In a later (7 May 1773) discussion (Life, ii.248), although rejecting Daines Barrington's claim that woodcocks and suchlike birds do not migrate (a topic that had preceded the mention of conglobulating swallows), he makes no reply to Goldsmith's assertion (which closes the subject) that |there is a partial migration of the swallows; the stronger ones migrate, the others do not.'
Johnson's conglobulating swallows

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