Subject

A
alligators
antelopes

ants
apes

asses
B
baboons
badgers
bats
bears
beavers

bees

birds
bishops
bitterns
boars (wild boars)
boys
buffalo
bullfinches
bullocks
butlers
butterflies
buzzards
C

Collective Noun
congregation
herd
army
colony
nest
swarm
shrewdness
troop
herd
drove
pace or passe
troop
cete
colony
sleuth or sloth
colony
family
swarm
drift
erst
grist
flock
dissimulation
flight
pod
bench
sedge or sege
sounder
blush
herd
bellowing
drove
draught
flutter
swarm
wake
caravan
flock

camels

Notes

driven in a group

fanciful

12 or more

driven in a group

camels
capercaillie
capons
caribou

cats
caterpillars
cattle

chickens
choughs
cobblers
colts
cormorants
cooks
coots
coyotes
cranes
crocodiles
crows
curlews
D

deer
dogs
dogfish

dolphins
dotterel

doves

train
tok
mews
herd
clowder
cluster or clutter
glaring
pounce
cats (wild cats)
army
herd
drove
brood
clutch
peep
chattering or clattering
drunkenship or drunkship
rag
rake
gulp
hastiness
covert
pack
herd
sedge or sege
bask
float
murder
herd
herd
bunch
mob
parcel
rangale
pack
troop
pod
school
team
trip
dole or dule

destruction

fanciful

doves

ducks
dunlins
E
eagles
eels
elephants
elk
emus
F

ferrets
finches
fish
flamingoes

flies
foresters
foxes
frogs
G

flight
piteousness
flock
badling
brace
bunch
paddling
plump
raft
skein
sord or sore
string
team
waddling
fling

on water
on water
on water
in flight
in flight
in flight

convocation
bed
swarm
herd
gang
mob
business
busyness
fesnyng
charm or chirm
school
shoal
stand
business
cloud
swarm
stalk
leash
skulk
army
flock
gaggle
plump
skein

geese

fanciful

corruption over time of 'busyness'

on land
on land
flying close
in flight

geese

giraffes

gnats

goats
gods
goldfinches
goosanders
gorillas
goshawks
grasshoppers
grouse
guineafowl
H

hares

hawks
harts
hedgehogs
herons
hermits
hippopotamuses
hogs

horses

team
wedge
herd
corps
tower
cloud
horde
rabble
swarm
flock
herd
tribe
trip or trippe
pantheon
charm
dopping
band
whoop
flight
cloud
swarm
covey
pack
rasp
down
drove
flick
husk
boil
cast
kettle
lease
herd
array
sedge or sege
siege
observance
bloat
parcel
team
band

in flight
in flight

See Pantheon

two or more spiralling in flight

flying in large numbers

See also boars, pigs, swine

in harness

horses

hounds
hyenas
I
ibex
ibises
iguanas

insects
J
jackdaws

jays
jellyfish
K
kangaroos
L
lapwings
larks
leopards
lions
M
mackerel

magpies

haras or harrase
herd
stable
string
stud
pack
cry
hunt
meet
mute
stable
cackle
herd
colony
mess
flight
horde
plague
rabble
swarm
train
clattering
band
party
scold
fluther
smack
mob
troop
deceit or desert
bevy
exaltation
leap or lepe
pride
sawt
shoal
charm

magpies

mallards
mares
martens

mice
minnows
moles

monkeys
moorhens
moose
mosquitoes
mudhens

mules
N
nightingales
nuns
O
owls

oxen
P
parrots
partridges

congregation
gulp
murder
tiding
tittering
brace
flush
puddling
sord
suit or sute
stud
richesse or richness
nest
mischief
trip
shoal
company
labor or labour
barrel
cartload
tribe
troop
plump
herd
scourge
fleet
barren
pack
rake
span
watch
superfluity
parliament
drove
team
yoke
company
pandemonium
covey

peacocks
pelicans

pheasants
pigs
pipers
pigeons

plovers
Q

quail
R
raccoons
ravens
rhinoceroses
rooks
S

salmon
sandpipers

seals

sheep

muster
ostentation
pride
pod
bouquet
head
nest
nide
nye
drift
drove
poverty
kit
congregation
stand
wing

See also boars, hogs, swine

flying together

bevy
covey
drift
gaze
unkindness
crash
building
parliament
bind
draught
run
fling
herd
pod
club
flock
down
drift
drove
herd
hurtle
meinie
mob

when driven in a group

when driven in a group

sheep
sheldrake

snails

snakes
snipe

sparrows
spiders

squirrels

starlings
stoats

storks
swallows

swans

parcel
trip
dopping
escargatoire
rout
walk
bed
den
knot
nest
pit
walk
whisp or wisp
host
meinie
tribe
cluster or clutter
colony
dray
scurry
chattering
clattering
cloud
congregation
murmuration
pack
trip
flight
mustering
phalanx
flight
gulp
bank
bevy
drift
eyrar
flight
game
herd
lamentation
sownder
team

when migrating

on the ground

fanciful

swans
swifts

swine
T
teal
tigers
toads
trout
turkeys

turtles
turtle doves
U
V
vipers
W
walruses

waterfowl
weasels

whales
wigeons

wildfowl

wedge
whiting
flock
scream
doylt
drift
trip

in flight

See also boars, hogs, pigs

spring
ambush
streak
knot
nest
hover
gang
rafter
bale
dole
nest
dole or dule
pitying

nest
herd
pod
bunch
knob
raft
colony
pack
gam
herd
mob
pod
company
trip
bunch
knob
plump
trip

fewer than 30

wolves
woodcocks
woodpeckers
wrens
X
Y
Z

zebras

pack
rout or route
fall
descent
herd

when in movement

herd
cohort
dazzle
zeal

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