Collective names of animals

by Geethalakshmi 2010-02-04 20:26:25

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


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