Collective Nouns For Birds

September 12, 2018 • Collective Nouns

(Source: https://7esl.com/collective-nouns-for-animals/ )

Collective Nouns for Birds

A band/A party/A scold of jays
A bazaar of guillemots
A bellowing of bullfinches
A bevy/A covey/A drift of quails
A brood/A clutch/A peep of chickens
A brood of hens
A cadge of peregrines
A cast of falcons
A chain of bobolinks
A charm/A chirm/A trembling/A trimming of finches
A charm/A chattering/A drum/A troubling of goldfinches
A charm/A chattering/A drum/A troubling of hummingbirds
A cloud of seafowls
A colony/A flock/A raft of auks
A colony of avocets
A colony of gulls
A colony of ibises
A colony/A parcel/A rookery of penguins
A colony/A committee/A wake of vultures
A company/A flock/A pandemonium/A psittacosis of parrots
A company/A bunch/A coil/A flight/A knob/A trip of widgeons
A congregation/A charm/A flock/A gulp/A murder/A tiding/A tittering/A tribe of magpies
A congregation/A band/A flight/A leash/A stand/A wing of plovers
A convocation/An aerie of eagles
A covert/A commotion/A cover/A fleet/A flock/A pod/A rasp/A swarm of coots
A covey/A brace/A brood/A flight/A pack of grouse
A covey/A bevy/A clutch/A warren of partridges
A covey of ptarmigans
A crowd of redwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A desert/A deceit of lapwings
A dole/A flight/A piteousness/A pitying/A prettying of doves
A fall/A covey/A flight/A plump of woodcocks
A flight of birds
A flight/A gulp of cormorants
A flight of goshawks
A flight/A flock/A kit/A passel of pigeons
A flight/A gulp of swallows
A fling of dunlins
A fling of sandpipers
A flock of birds
A flock of bustards
A flock of swifts
A flock of turkeys
A flush of ducks
A gaggle/A flock/A plump/A skein/A team/A wedge of geese
A head/A herd of curlews
A herd/A bank/A bevy/A drift/A game/A herd/A lamentation/A squadron/A team/A wedge/A whiteness/A whiting of swans
A herd/A flock of wrens
A hill of ruffs
A host/A quarrel/A tribe/A ubiquity of sparrows
A knob of pintails
A mews/An aerie/A cast/A kettle/A mew/A screw/A stream of hawks
A murder/A hover/A muster/A parcel of crows
A chattering/A cloud/A congregation/A clutter of starlings
A muse of capons
A muster/An ostentation/A pride of peacocks
A mustering/A flight/A phalanx of storks
A mutation of thrushes
A bouquet/A head/A warren of pheasants
A parcel of linnets
A parliament/A stare of owls
A parliament/A building/A congregation/A shoal/A wing of rooks
A pitying of turtledoves
A plump of moorhens
A plump/A bunch/A knob/A raft of waterfowls
A pod/A scoop of pelicans
A prattle of parrots
A pride/A flock of ostriches
A rafter of turkeys
A run of poultry
A sedge/A siege of bitterns
A sedge/A herd/A sedge/A siege of cranes
A sedge/A flight/A hedge/A rookery/A siege of herons
A flush/A puddling of mallards
A spring/A bunch/A coil/A knob/A raft of teals
A squabble of seagulls
A stand of flamingos
A trip of dotterels
A trip/A bunch/A knob/A lute/A skein of wildfowls
A wake of buzzards
A walk/A wisp of snipes
A watch/A match/A pray of nightingales
An army of caterpillars
An exaltation/An ascension/A bevy/A flight of larks
An ostentation of peacocks
An unkindness/An aerie/A conspiracy of ravens