animal group names – collective nouns for various animals
Antelopes
herd
ants
army
colony
nest
swarm
apes
shrewdness
troop
baboons
troop
badgers
cete
barracuda
battery
bats
colony
bears
sleuth or sloth
beavers
colony
family
bees
swarm
drift
erst
grist
birds
flock
flight
pod
bitterns
sedge or sege
boars
sounder
buffalo
herd
bullfinches
bellowing
bullocks
drove
butterflies
swarm
flutter
kaleidoscope
C
capercaillie
tok
capons
mews
caribou
herd
cats
clowder
pounce
destruction
cattle
mob
chickens
clutch
cheetahs
coalition
choughs
chattering
colts
rag
rake
cormorants
gulp
coots
covert
coyotes
pack
cranes
herd
sedge
crocodiles
bask
crows
murder or horde
curlews
herd
D
deer
herd
parcel
dogs
pack
dolphins
pod
dotterel
trip
doves
dole or dule
flight
ducks
badling
paddling
plump
raft
dunlins
fling
E
eagles
convocation
eels
bed
elephants
herd
elk
gang
herd
F
falcons
cast
ferrets
business
busyness
besyness
fesynes
fesnyng
feamyng
finches
charm
fish
school
shoal
flamingoes
stand
flamboyance
colony
regiment
flies
business
foxes
leash
skulk
frogs
army
G
geese
flock
gaggle
skein
giraffes
herd
tower
gnats
cloud
horde
goats
flock
trip
goldfinches
charm
gorillas
band
goshawks
flight
grasshoppers
cloud
grouse
covey
guineafowl
rasp
H
hawks
boil
cast
kettle
lease
hens
brood
herons
sedge
siege
hippopotamuses
bloat
hogs
parcel
hornets
nest
horses
team
harrase
herd
string
stud
hounds
pack
hyenas
cackle
I
ibex
herd
insects
swarm
J
jackdaws
clattering
train
jays
party
scold
jellyfish
fluther
smack
K
kangaroos
mob
troop
kittens
kindle
litter
L
lapwings
deceit or desert
larks
bevy
exaltation
leopards
leap
lions
pride
sawt
locusts
plague
M
mackerel
shoal
magpies
charm
gulp
murder
tiding
manta rays
squadron
mallards
sord
suit
mares
stud
martens
richness
mice
nest
minnows
shoal
moles
labour
monkeys
barrel
troop
wilderness
moose
herd
mules
barren
span
N
nightingales
watch
O
orangutans
buffoonery
owls
parliament
oxen
drove
team
yoke
oysters
bed
P
parrots
company
pandemonium
partridges
covey
peacocks
muster
ostentation
pride
pelicans
pod
penguins
colony
convent
tuxedo
pheasants
bouquet
head
nest
nide
nye
pigs
drift
drove
pigeons
kit
plovers
congregation
stand
wing
Q
quail
bevy
covey
drift
R
rabbits
colony
nest
herd
litter
raccoons
gaze
rats
mischief
ravens
unkindness
rhinoceroses
crash
rooks
building
parliament
S
seals
pod
sea urchins
herd
sheep
flock
drove
herd
hurtle
pack
sheldrake
dopping
snakes
bed
den
knot
nest
pit
snipes
walk
wisp
sparrows
host
spiders
cluster or clutter
squirrels
dray
scurry
starlings
chattering
murmuration
storks
mustering
swallows
flight
swans
bank
bevy
flight
game
herd
wedge
swifts
flock
scream
swine
drift
T
teal
spring
tigers
ambush
streak
toads
knot
nest
trout
hover
turkeys
gang
rafter
turtles
bale
dole or dule
nest
turtle doves
dole or dule
pitying
V
vipers
nest
vultures
kettle
committee
wake
W
walruses
herd
pod
waterfowl
bunch
knob
raft
weasels
colony
pack
whales
gam
herd
mob
pod
wigeons
company
trip
wildfowl
bunch
knob
plump
trip
wolves
pack
rout or route
wombats
wisdom
woodcocks
fall
woodpeckers
descent
wrens
herd
Z
zebras
herd
dazzle
zeal
