Collective names of animals
| A herd of antelope A colony or an army of ants A shrewdness of apes A herd or pace of asses A culture of bacteria A cete of badgers A shoal of bass A sleuth or sloth of bears A colony of beavers A swarm, grist or hive of bees A flock, flight, congregation or volery of birds A sedge or siege of bitterns A sounder of boars A herd of buffalo A brace or clash of bucks An army of caterpillars A clowder or clutter of cats A herd or drove of cattle A brood or peep of chickens A clutch or chattering of chicks A bed of clams A quiver of cobras A rag of colts A cover of coots A kine of cows (twelve cows are a flink) A band of coyote A sedge or siege of cranes A float of crocodiles A murder of crows A litter of cubs A herd of curlews A cowardice of curs A herd of deer A pack of dogs A dule of doves A brace, paddling or team of ducks A clutch of eggs A herd of elephants A pod of elephant seals A weaner pod is yearling elephant seals A gang of elks A mob of emus A business or fesnyng of ferrets A charm of finches A school, shoal, run, haul, catch or draught of fish A swarm of flies A skulk or leash of foxes An army or colony of frogs A flock, gaggle or skein (in flight) of geese A cloud or horde of gnats A herd, tribe or trip goats A charm of goldfinches A band of gorillas A leash of greyhounds A down or husk of hares A cast or kettle of hawks A brood of hens A hedge of herons A drift, or parcel of hogs A team, pair or harras of horses | A pack, mute or cry of hounds A smack of jellyfish A troop or mob of kangaroos A kindle or litter of kittens An ascension or exaultation of larks A leap (leep) of leopards A pride of lions A plague of locusts A tiding of magpies A sord of mallards A stud of mares A richness of martens A labour of moles A troop of monkeys A barren or span of mules A parliament of owls A yoke, drove, team or herd of oxen A bed of oysters A company of parrots A covey of partridges A muster or ostentation of peacocks A litter of peeps A nest, nide (nye) or bouquet of pheasants A flock or flight of pigeons A litter of pigs A wing or congregation of plovers A string of ponies A pod of porpoises A covey or bevy of quail A nest of rabbits A pack or swarm of rats A rhumba of rattlesnakes An unkindness of ravens A crash or herd of rhinos A bevy of roebucks A building or clamour of rooks A herd or pod of seals A drove or flock of sheep A nest of snakes A walk or wisp of snipe A host of sparrows A dray of squirrels A murmuration of starlings A mustering of storks A flight of swallows A bevy, herd, lamentation or wedge of swans A flock of swifts A sounder or drift of swine A spring of teal A knot of toads A hover of trout A rafter of turkeys A pitying or dule of turtledoves A bale of turtles A pod of walrus A school, gam or pod of whales A nest of vipers A pack or route of wolves A fall of woodcocks A descent of woodpeckers |
