Collective Nouns

 

Apes

a shrewdness

 
 

Asses

a herd or pace

 
 

Badgers

a cete

 
 

Bears

a sloth or sleuth

 

Bees

a hive, swarm, drift or bike

 

Birds

a flock (flight), parcel, pod, fleet or dissimulation of small birds

 

Birds (aviary)

a volary

 
 

Boar (wild)

a sounder

 
 

Boys

a blush

 
 

Buffalo

a herd or gang

 
 

Cats

a clowder or glaring

 
 

Cats (wild)

a destruction

 
 

Cattle

a herd or drove

 
 

Chickens

a brood, cletch, clutch or peep

 
 

Choughs

a chattering or clattering

 
 

Cobblers

a drunkship

 
 

Colts

a rag or rake

 
 

Cooks

a hastiness

 
 

Coots

a covert

 
 

Cranes

a herd

 
 

Cubs

a litter

 
 

Curlew

a herd

 
 

Curs

a cowardice

 
 

Deer

a herd or mob

 
 

Dogs

a pack or kennel

 
 

Dotterel

a trip

 
 

Doves

a flight, dole or piteousness

 
 

Ducks

a raft, bunch or paddling (on water)

 

Ducks (wild)

a team (in flight)

 

Dunlins

a fling

 

Elephants

a herd

 

Elk

a herd or gang

 
 

Ferrets

a business

 
 

Finches

a charm or chirm

 
 

Fish

a shoal or a run of fish (in motion)

 
 

Flies

a cloud

 
 

Foresters

a stalk

 
 

Foxes

a skulk

 
 

Geese

a gaggle or (in the air) a skein, team, wedge

 

Giraffes

a herd

 

Goats

a flock, herd or trip

 

Grouse

a  pack or covey

 
Hares

a husk or down

 

 

Hawks

a cast (let fly)

 
 

Hermits

an observance

 
 

Herons

a siege

 
 

Horses

a stud or haras (breeding)  or a team

 
 

Hounds

a kennel, pack, cry or mute

 
 

Insects

a flight or swarm

 
 

Kangaroos

a mob or troop

 
 

Kittens

a kindle

 
 

Ladies

a bevy

 
 

Lapwing

a desert

 
 

Larks

an exaltation or bevy

 
 

Leopards

a leap

 
 

Lions

a pride

 
 

Magpies

a tiding

 
 

Mallard

a sord or sute

 
 

Martens

a richesse

 
 

Merchants

a faith

 
 

Moles

a labour

 
 

Monkeys

a troop

 

Mules

a barren

 

Nightingales

a watch

 

Nuns

a superfluity

 
 

Partridges

a covey

 
 

Peacocks

a muster

 
 

Pedlars

a malapertness (impertinence)

 
 

Penguins

a rookery

 
 

Pheasants

a head or nye

 
 

Pigeons

a kit (flying together)

 

Pigs

a herd

 

Piglets

a litter

 

Plovers

a stand, wing or congregation

 

Pochards

a rush or flight

 

Porpoises

a herd, pod or school

 
 

Prisoners

a pity

 
 

Ptarmigan

a covey

 
 

Pups

a litter

 
 

Quail

a bevy or drift

 
 

Racehorses

a string

 
 

Ravens

an unkindness

 
 

Roes

a bevy

 
 

Rooks

a parliament or building

 
 

Ruffs

a hill

 
 

Seals

a herd, rookery or pod

 
 

Sheep

a flock, herd, drift or trip

 
 

Sheldrake

a dopping

 
 

Snipe

a wisp or walk

 
 

Sparrows

a host

 
 

Starlings

a murmuration

 
 

Swallows

a flight

 
 

Swans

a game or herd; a wedge of swans in the air

 
 

Swine

a herd; a sounder of tame swine,  a drift of wild swine

 
 

Taverners

a glozing or fawning

 
 

Teal

a spring

 
 

Waterfowl

a bunch or knob

 
 

Whales

a school, herd, gam or pod; a grind of bottle-nosed whales

 

Wigeon

a company or trip

 

Wildfowl

a bunch, trip or plump or a knob of less than 30 wildfowl

 

Wolves

a pack or trout

 
 

Women

a gaggle

 
 

Woodcock

a fall

 
 

Wrens

a herd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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