Subject Collective Noun Notes

A
alligators congregation
antelopes herd
army
colony
ants
nest
swarm
shrewdness
apes
troop
herd
asses drove driven in a group
pace or passe
B
baboons troop
badgers cete
bats colony
bears sleuth or sloth
colony
beavers
family
swarm
drift
bees
erst
grist
flock
dissimulation
birds fanciful
flight
pod
bishops bench
bitterns sedge or sege
boars (wild boars) sounder 12 or more
boys blush
buffalo herd
bullfinches bellowing
bullocks drove driven in a group
butlers draught
flutter
butterflies
swarm
buzzards wake
C
 caravan
camels flock
train
capercaillie tok
capons mews
caribou herd
clowder
cluster or clutter
cats glaring destruction
pounce
cats (wild cats)
caterpillars army
herd
cattle
drove
brood
chickens clutch
peep
choughs chattering or clattering
cobblers drunkenship or drunkship
rag
colts
rake
cormorants gulp
cooks hastiness
coots covert
coyotes pack
herd
cranes
sedge or sege
bask
crocodiles
float
crows murder
curlews herd
D
herd
bunch
deer mob
parcel
rangale
dogs pack
dogfish troop
pod
dolphins school
team
dotterel trip
dole or dule fanciful
doves flight
piteousness fanciful
flock
badling
brace
bunch on water
paddling on water
plump
ducks
raft on water
skein in flight
sord or sore
string in flight
team in flight
waddling
dunlins fling
E
eagles convocation
bed
eels
swarm
elephants herd
elk gang
emus mob
F
business
ferrets busyness corruption over time of 'busyness'
fesnyng
finches charm or chirm
school
fish
shoal
flamingoes stand
business
flies cloud
swarm
foresters stalk
leash
foxes
skulk
frogs army
G
flock on land
gaggle on land
plump flying close
geese
skein in flight
team in flight
wedge in flight
herd
giraffes corps
tower
cloud
horde
gnats
rabble
swarm
flock
herd
goats
tribe
trip or trippe
gods pantheon See Pantheon
goldfinches charm
goosanders dopping
band
gorillas
whoop
goshawks flight
cloud
grasshoppers
swarm
covey
grouse
pack
guineafowl rasp
H
down
drove
hares
flick
husk
boil two or more spiralling in flight
cast
hawks
kettle flying in large numbers
lease
harts herd
hedgehogs array
sedge or sege
herons
siege
hermits observance
hippopotamuses bloat
hogs parcel See also boars, pigs, swine
team in harness
band
haras or harrase
horses herd
stable
string
stud
pack
cry
hunt
hounds
meet
mute
stable
hyenas cackle
I
ibex herd
ibises colony
iguanas mess
flight
horde
insects plague
rabble
swarm
J
train
jackdaws
clattering
band
jays party
scold
fluther
jellyfish
smack
K
mob
kangaroos
troop
L
lapwings deceit or desert
bevy
larks
exaltation
leopards leap or lepe
pride
lions
sawt
M
mackerel shoal
charm
congregation
gulp
magpies
murder
tiding
tittering
brace
flush
mallards puddling
sord
suit or sute
mares stud
martens richesse or richness
nest
mice mischief
trip
minnows shoal
company
moles
labor or labour
barrel
cartload
monkeys
tribe
troop
moorhens plump
moose herd
mosquitoes scourge
mudhens fleet
barren
pack
mules
rake
span
N
nightingales watch
nuns superfluity
O
owls parliament
drove
oxen team
yoke
P
company
parrots
pandemonium
partridges covey
muster
peacocks ostentation
pride
pelicans pod
bouquet
head
pheasants nest
nide
nye
drift See also boars, hogs, swine
pigs
drove
pipers poverty
pigeons kit flying together
congregation
plovers stand
wing
Q
bevy
quail covey
drift
R
raccoons gaze
ravens unkindness
rhinoceroses crash
building
rooks
parliament
S
bind
salmon draught
run
sandpipers fling
herd
seals pod
club
flock
down
drift when driven in a group
drove when driven in a group
herd
sheep
hurtle
meinie
mob
parcel
trip
sheldrake dopping
escargatoire
snails rout
walk
bed
den
snakes knot
nest
pit
walk
snipe
whisp or wisp
host
sparrows meinie
tribe
spiders cluster or clutter
colony
squirrels dray
scurry
chattering
clattering
starlings cloud
congregation
murmuration
pack
stoats
 trip
flight
storks mustering
phalanx when migrating
flight
swallows
gulp
bank on the ground
bevy
drift
eyrar
flight
game
swans
herd
lamentation fanciful
sownder
team
wedge in flight
whiting
flock
swifts
scream
doylt See also boars, hogs, pigs
swine drift
trip
T
teal spring
ambush
tigers
streak
knot
toads
nest
trout hover
gang
turkeys
rafter
bale
turtles dole
nest
dole or dule
turtle doves
pitying
U
V
vipers nest
W
herd
walruses
pod
bunch
waterfowl knob
raft
colony
weasels
pack
gam
herd
whales
mob
pod
company
wigeons
trip
bunch
knob fewer than 30
wildfowl
plump
trip
pack
wolves
rout or route when in movement
woodcocks fall
woodpeckers descent
wrens herd
X
Y
Z
herd
cohort
zebras
dazzle
zeal

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