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) Cats (Kittens) Cats (Wild) Cattle Cheetahs Chickens (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 Wake Caravan, Train, Flock Mews Herd Army Clowder, Clutter, Pounce, Dout, Nuisance, Glorying, Glare Kindle, Litter, Intrigue Destruction Drove, Herd, Team Coalition Brood, Peep

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 Eels Elephants Elk Emus Falcons Ferrets Finches Fish (General) Fish (Caught)

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 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

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) Horses (Colts) Horses (Ponies) Horses (Wild) Hummingbirds Hyenas Impalas Insects Jays Jellyfish Kangaroos Lapwings Larks Leopards Lice

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) 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

Termites Colony, Nest, Swarm, Brood Thrush Mutation Tigers Streak, Ambush Toads Knot, Knab, Nest Trout Hover Turkeys Rafter, Gang, Posse Turtles Bale, Nest, Turn, Dole Turtle Doves Pitying, Dule Vipers Generation, Nest Vultures Venue Vultures (Circling) Kettle Walruses Herd, Pod Wasps Nest, Swarm Waterfowl Knob, Plump Weasles Gang, Colony, Pack Whales Pod, Gam, Herd, School, Mod Widgeons Company Wildfowl Plump Wolves (General) Pack Wolves (Moving) Route, Rout Wombats Wisdom Woodcocks Fall Woodpeckers Descent Worms Bed, Clew, Bunch, Clat Wrens Herd Zebras Zeal, Crossing, Dazzle, Cohorts, Herd Another animal group that you may consider is a nag of wives and a jerk of husbands.