Animal Collective Nouns

Animal
Albatross Alligators Apes Antelope Ants Asses Auks Baboons Bacteria Badgers Barracudas Bats Bass Bears (General) Bears (Cubs) Beavers Bees Birds (Chicks) Birds (Flight) Birds (Game) Birds (Ground) Birds (Sea) Bison Bitterns Bloodhounds Bobolinks Buffalo Bullfinches Bullocks Butterflies Buzzards Camels Capons Caribou Caterpillars Cats (General)

Group Name
Rookery Congregation Shrewdness, Troop Herd Colony, Army, Swarm, Nest Pace, Herd, Drove Colony, Flock, Raft Troop, Flange Culture Cete, Colony, Set, Company Battery Colony, Cloud Shoal Sloth, Sleuth Litter Colony, Family Grist, Hive, Swarm, Nest Brood, Clutch Flight Volary, Brace, Plump, Knob Flock, Dissimulation Wreck Herd Sedge, Seige Sute Chain Herd, Troop, Gang, Obstinancy Bellowing Drove Flight, Flutter, (Many more) Wake Caravan, Train, Flock Mews Herd Army Clowder, Clutter, Pounce, Dout, Nuisance, Glorying, Glare

Cats (Kittens) Cats (Wild) Cattle Cheetahs Chickens (General) Chickens (Chicks) Chinchilla Choughs Clams Cobras Cockroaches Cod Coots Cormorants Cows Coyotes Crabs Cranes Crocodiles Crows Curlews Deer (General) Deer (Buck) Deer (Roe) Dogs (General) Dogs (Curs) Dogs (Hounds) Dogs (Puppies) Dogs (Wild) Dolphins Donkeys Dotterel Doves (General) Doves (Turtle) Ducks (Flight) Ducks (Ground) Ducks (Water) Dunlins Eagles

Kindle, Litter, Intrigue Destruction Drove, Herd, Team Coalition Brood, Peep Clutch, Chattering Colony Clattering Bed Quiver Intrusion Lap Cover, Raft Gulp Kine Band Cast Sedge, Seige Bask, Float Murder, Horde, Parcel, Storytelling Herd Herd, Leash, Gang Brace, Clash Bevy Kennel Cowardice Cry, Mute, Pack Litter Pack Pod Drove, Pace, Herd Trip Dule, Bevy, Cote, Dole, Paddling Pitying, Piteousness Flock Brace, badling Raft, Team, Paddling Fling Convocation, Aerie

Eels Elephants Elk Emus Falcons Ferrets Finches Fish (General) Fish (Caught) Flamingoes Flies Frogs Fox Geese (General) Geese (Flight) Geese (Ground) Giraffes Gnats Gnus Goats Goldfinches Goldfish Gorillas Goshawks Grasshoppers Greyhounds Grouse Guillemots Gulls Guinea Fowl Hawks (General) Hawks (Flight) Hawks (Spiraling) Hedgehogs Herons Herring Hippopotamuses Hornets Horses (General)

Swarm, Bed, Fry Herd, Memory Gang, Herd Mob Cast Business, Cast, Fesnying Charm Draft, Nest, Shoal, School ("school" is possibly a corruption of shoal) Catch, Drought, Haul Stand, Flamboyance Business, Swarm, Cloud Army, Colony, Knot Leash, Skulk, Earth, Lead, Troop Flock Skein Gaggle, Herd, Corps Tower Cloud, Horde, Swarm Implausibility Tribe, Trip, Drove, Herd, Flock Charm Glint, Troubling Band, Troop Flight Cloud Leash Pack, Covey Bazaar Colony, Screech Confusion Cast Kettle Boil Array Sedge, Siege, Hedge Army, Shoal Bloat Nest, Bike Team, Harras, Stable, Troop, Stud (a group belonging to one owner)

Horses (Colts) Horses (Ponies) Horses (Wild) Hummingbirds Hyenas Impalas Insects Jays Jellyfish Kangaroos Lapwings Larks Leopards Lice Lions Lizards Locusts Magpies Mallards (General) Mallards (Flight) Martens Mice Midges Minnows Moles Monkeys Moose Mosquitoes Mudhens Mules Nightingales Otters Owls Oxen Oysters Parrots Partridge Peacocks Pekingese

Rag, Rake String Herd Charm Cackle, Clan Herd Horde, Nest, Swarm, Rabble, Plague Party, Scold, Band Smack, Brood Troop, Mob, Herd Deceit Exaltation, Ascension Leap Flock Pride, Sault, Troop Lounge Plague Tiding, Gulp, Murder, Charm Brace Sord Richness Mischief Bite Shoal, Steam, Swarm Labor, Company, Movement Troop, Barrel, Carload, Cartload, Tribe Herd Scourge Fleet Pack, Span, Barren, Rake Watch Romp, Bevy, Family, Raft Parliament, Stare Team, Yoke, Drove Bed Company, Pandemonium Covey, Bew Muster, Ostentation, Pride Pomp

Pelicans Penguins (General) Penguins (Nursery) Pheasants (General) Pheasants (Brood) Pheasants (Take-Off) Pigeons Pigs (General) Pigs (Boars) Pigs (Hogs) Pigs (Piglets) Pigs (Swine) Pilchards Plovers (General) Plovers (Flight) Polecats Porcupines Porpoises Prairie Dogs Ptarmigans Quail Rabbits (General) Rabbits (Domestic) Rabbits (Hares) Rabbits (Jackrabbit) Rabbits (Young) Raccoons Rats Rattlesnakes Ravens Reindeer Rhinoceroses Roebucks Rooks Ruffs Salamandars Salmon Sandpipers Sardines

Pod Colony, Rookery, Huddle Crche Nest, Nye Nide Bouquet Flight, Flock, Kit Drift, Drove Singular, Sounder Team, Passel, Drift, Parcel Litter, Farrow Sounder Shoal Congregation Wing Chine Prickle Herd, Pod, School, Crowd, Shoal Coterie Covey Bevy, Covey Colony, Warren, Bury, Trace, Trip Herd Down, Husk Husk Litter, Nest Gaze Colony, Pack, Plague, Swarm Rhumba Unkindness, Storytelling Herd Crash, Stubbornness Bevy Building, Clamor, Parliament Hill Congress Run Fling Family

Scorpions Seabirds Seals Sharks Sheep Sheldrakes Skylarks Squirrels Snails Snakes Snipe Sparrows Spiders Springbok Squirrels Starlings Stingrays Stoats Storks Swallows Swans (General) Swans (Flight) Swifts Teal Termites Thrush Tigers Toads Trout Turkeys Turtles Turtle Doves Vipers Vultures Vultures (Circling) Walruses Wasps Waterfowl Weasles

Bed, Nest Wreck Pod, Bob, Harem, Herd, Rookery Shiver, School, Shoal Drove, Flock, Down, Hurtle, Fold, Pack, Trip Doading Exultation Dray, Scurry Escargatoire, Rout, Walk Den, Nest, Pit, Bed, Knot Walk, Wisp Host Cluster, Clutter Herd Dray, Scurry Murmuration, Chattering Fever Pack, Trip Mustering, Muster Flight, Gulp Bevy, Bank, Herd Wedge, Flight Flock Spring Colony, Nest, Swarm, Brood Mutation Streak, Ambush Knot, Knab, Nest Hover Rafter, Gang, Posse Bale, Nest, Turn, Dole Pitying, Dule Generation, Nest Venue Kettle Herd, Pod Nest, Swarm Knob, Plump Gang, Colony, Pack

Whales Widgeons Wildfowl Wolves (General) Wolves (Moving) Wombats Woodcocks Woodpeckers Worms Wrens Zebras

Pod, Gam, Herd, School, Mod Company Plump Pack Route, Rout Wisdom Fall Descent Bed, Clew, Bunch, Clat Herd Zeal, Crossing, Dazzle, Cohorts, Herd

Collective nouns for people

A faculty of academics A troupe of acrobats A cast/company of actors/players A bench of aldermen A conflagration of arsonists A troupe of artistes A team of athletes B A tabernacle of bakers A babble of barbers A promise of barmen A thought of barons A squad of beaters A bevy/galaxy of beauties A bench/psalter of bishops A blush of boys A troop of boy scouts A feast of brewers A pack of brownies A shuffle of bureaucrats A goring of butchers A sneer of butlers C A slate of candidates A chapter/dignity of canons A company/syndicate of capitalists A congregation of churchgoers A school of clerks A cutting/drunkship of cobblers A hastiness of cooks A shrivel of critics A cowardice of curs D A troupe of dancers A decanter/decorum of deans

A board of directors An obstruction of dons E A staff of employees A panel of experts F A stalk of foresters G A talent of gamblers A company of girl guides A galaxy of governesses A conjunction of grammarians H A herd of harlots A melody of harpists An observance of hermits A gang of hoodlums A cavalcade of horsemen A blast of hunters J A bench/sentence of judges K A banner/rout of knights L A bevy of ladies An eloquence of lawyers A colony of lepers An audience of listeners M An illusion of magicians A bench of magistrates A riches of matrons A morbidity of majors A band of men

A faith of merchants A diligence of messengers A troupe of minstrels A cortege of mourners An orchestra of musicians N A tribe of natives A superfluity of nuns O A crowd of onlookers P A curse/illusion/misbelieving of painters A malapertness of pedlars/peddler A crowd/audience/congregation/mob of people A troupe/troup of performers A skirl of pipers A posse of police A converting of preachers A pity/gang of prisoners R A band of robbers S A crew of sailors A scolding of seamstresses A house of senators A subtlety of sergeants-at-law An obeisance of servants A posse of sheriffs A blackening of shoemakers A choir of singers An army/brigade/company/division/muster/ platoon/troop of soldiers A class of students A simplicity of subalterns T A disguising of tailors

A glozing of taverners A den/gang of thieves A board of trustees A flock of tourists U An unction of undertakers V A prudence of vicars W An ambush of widows A coven of witches A gaggle of women A gang of workmen A congregation of worshippers A worship of writers Y A fellowship of yeomen

Collective nouns for birds

A congregation of birds A dissimulation of birds A flock of birds A sedge of bitterns A chain of bobolinks A wake of buzzards A clutch of chicks A peep of chickens A clattering of choughs A cover of coots A herd of cranes A murder of crows A herd of curlews A trip of dotterel A dule of doves A paddling of ducks A raft of ducks A convocation of eagles A clutch of eggs A mob of emus A cast of falcons A charm of finches A gaggle of geese A skein of geese A vein of goldfinches A brace of grouse A covey of grouse A colony of gulls A cast of hawks A kettle of hawks A brood of hens A siege of herons A charm of hummingbirds A hover of hummingbirds A band of jays A scolding of jays A deceit of lapwings An exaltation of larks A tiding of magpies A sword of mallards A watch of nightingales A parliament of owls

A company of parrots A covey of partridges A muster of peacocks An ostentation of peacocks A colony of penguins A bouquet of pheasants A nye of pheasants A congregation of plovers A rush of pochard A run of poultry A bevy of quail An unkindness of ravens A building of rooks A walk of snipe A wisp of snipe A host of sparrows A chatter of starlings A murmuration of starlings A scourge of starlings A mustering of storks A flight of swallows A ballet of swans A wedge of swans A spring of teal A rafter of turkeys A pitying of turtledoves A knob of widgeons A plump of wildfowl A trip of wildfowl A fall of woodcocks A descent of woodpeckers A herd of wrens