Animal Group Names (Collective Nouns)

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Some of these are very appropriate, others make you wonder how the group names came about and others are hilarious. Enjoy!


Albatross - Rookery
Antelopes - Herd, cluster, herd
Ants - Nest, army, colony, state, swarm, bike
Apes - Shrewdness, troop
Asses - Pace, drove, herd, coffle
Auks - Colony, flock, raft
Baboons - Troop, flange
Badgers - Cete, colony, set, company
Bats - Colony, cloud
Bears - Sloth, sleuth, slought
Beavers - Family, lodge, colony
Bees - Swarm, cluster, nest, hive, erst, bike, cast, college, drift, game, fry, peck, rabble, stand, range, butt, spindle, grist
Birds - Battery, cast, congregation, covert, covey, drift, flight, fleet, flock, flush, nest, aviary
Bison - Herd
Bitterns - Flock, sedge, siege
Bloodhounds - Sute
Boars - Sounder, singular, herd
Buffaloes - Troop, herd, gang, obstinacy
Bullfinches - Bellowing
Bullocks - Drove
Butterflies - Rabble, flight
Camels - Flock, train, caravan, herd
Caribou - Herd
Caterpillars - Army, nest
Cats - Clowder, clutter, cluster, colony, glorying, kindle, litter, dout, parliament, seraglio, glaring, destruction (wild cats)
Cattle - Drove, herd, bow, bunch, draft, drift, flote, head, diary
Chickens - Brood, clutch, hatching, nest, parcel, peep, battery, flock
Chinchilla - Colony
Clams - Bed
Cockroaches - Intrusion
Cod - Lap
Colts - Rake, rage
Cormorants - Colony, flight
Cows - Dairy, drove, pack, team
Crabs - Cast
Cranes - Flock, herd, sedge, siege, sege
Crocodiles - Bask, nest
Crows - Murder, parcel, hover
Deer - Herd, leash, bevy, game, quarry, bunch, mob
Dogs - Gang, legion, kennel, pack, stud
Dolphins - Team, school
Doves - Duet, dule, dole, flight, troop, pitying (of turtle doves)
Ducks - Bunch, brood, knob, raft, skein, string, mob, paddling, plump, sord, sore, team, waddling
Eagles - Aerie, brood, convocation, cargo
Eels - Swarm, bed, bind, draft, fry, wisp
Elephants - Herd, flock, parade
Elks - Gang, herd
Ferrets - Business
Finches - Chirm, charm
Fish - School, shoal, haul, draught, run, catch, cran, flote, flutter, cast, throw, warp
Flies - Business, hatch, grist, swarm, community, fare, rabble, cloud
Flamingoes - Stand
Foxes - Cloud, skulk, brace, leash, troop, earth
Frogs - Army, colony, froggery
Geese - Gaggle, clutch, flock, line, skein, nide, wedge
Giraffes - Herd, corps, troop, tower
Gnats - Swarm, cloud, horde, plague, rabble
Goats - Flock, trip, herd, tribe
Goldfish - Troubling
Gorillas - Band
Grasshoppers - Cloud
Hares - Down, flick, huske, kindle, tripp, drove, warren, dun
Hawks - Aerie, brood, cast, leash, mews, staff
Hedgehogs - Nest, array
Hens - Battery, brood, parcel, roost, mews, concatenation
Hippopotami - Bloat, school, pod, herd
Hornets - Nest, bike, swarm
Horses - Haras, stud, herd, string, field, set, team, stable, mews, mob, parcel, rag, slate
Insects - Horde, nest, swarm, rabble, plague
Jackrabbits - Husk
Jellyfish - Smuck, fluther, smack, stuck, smuth, brood
Kangaroos - Troop, mob, herd
Larks - Bevy, exaltation, flight, wisp
Leopards - Leap
Lice - Flock
Lions - Pride, troop, flock, sawt, souse
Locusts - Swarm, cloud, plague
Magpies - Tiding, tittering
Mallard - Flush, lute, puddling, sord, sute
Mice - Nest, colony, harvest
Midges - Bite
Minnows - Shoal, steam, or swarm
Moles - Company, labour, citadel (of mole burrows)
Monkeys - Troop, cartload, tribe
Moose - Herd
Mosquitoes - Scourge
Mules - Barren, span, mulada, rake
Nightingales - Watch, flock, route
Otters - Bevy, lodge, family
Owls - Parliament, stare
Oxen - Team, yoke, drove, or herd
Oysters - Bed, cast, clam, hive, set
Parrots - Company, flock, pandemonium
Peacocks - Pride, muster, ostentation
Pekingese - Pomp
Penguins - Parcel, rookery
Pigeons - Flight, flock, loft
Pigs - Drove, fare, litter, flock, hoggery, sounder, nest of trotters
Porpoises - School, crowd, herd, shoal, gam, pod, turmoil
Quail - Bevy, covey, jug
Rabbits - Bevy, bury (of conies), flick, kindle, nest, game, warren, colony
Racoons - Nursery
Ravens - Unkindness
Reindeer - Herd
Rhinoceros - Crash, stubbornness, herd
Rooks - Building, clamour, congregation, council, pack, shoal, wing
Salmon - Run, bind
Sardines - Family
Scorpions - Bed, nest
Seals - Pod, herd, trip, rookery, flock, plump, harem
Sharks - School or shoal
Sheep - Flock, hirsel, drove trip, drift, fold, hurtle, parcel, mob, down, pack
Snails - Escargatoire, rout, walk
Snakes - Bed, knot, den, pit
Spiders - Cluster, clutter
Squirrels - Drey, colony
Starlings - Cloud, chattering, murmuration, clattering
Stoats - Pack, trip
Storks - Flight, mustering, phalanx
Swallows - Flight, gulp, rush
Swans - Flock, bevy, bank, eyrar, drift, game, herd, sownder, team, wedge
Swine - Sounder, drift, herd, trip, drone, singular (of boars)
Tigers - Ambush
Toads - Knot, nest, knob
Trout - Hover, leash, troup
Turkeys - Duet, crop, posse, rafter, gang
Turtles - Bale, dole, turn, dule
Vipers - nest
Vultures - Carpets, cast, drove, flock, herd
Walruses - Pod, herd, huddle
Wasps - Nest, knot, knab, bike, swarm
Weasels - Pack
Whales - School, gam, mob, pod, herd, plump, run, flote, shoal
Wildfowl - Lute, plump, scry, skein, sord, trip
Wolves - Rout, route, pack, head, horde
Woodpeckers - Descent
Worms - Bed, clew, bunch, clat
Zebras - Herd, zeal, cohorts


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