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| Noun | Collective Noun (most usual first) |
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| Birds | Volery |
| Bitterns | Sedge, Siege |
| Budgerigars | Chatter |
| Bustards | Flock |
| Capercaillies | Tok |
| Chickens | Brood, Peep |
| Choughs | Chattering, Clattering |
| Coots | Cover, Raft |
| Cormorants | Flight |
| Cranes | Sedge, Siege |
| Crows | Murder, Hover |
| Curlews | Head |
| Doves | Flight, Dole, Dule, Pitying, Prettying |
| Ducks | Flush, Team (diving) dopping (in flight) team, plump (on water) Paddling (brood) Flush (pair) Brace |
| Dunlin | Fling |
| Eagles | Convocation,Jubilee |
| Falcons | Cast |
| Finches | Charm, Trimming, Trembling |
| Geese | (at rest) Gaggle, Flock, Nide (in flight) Skein |
| Goldfinches | Glister, Charm, Chattering, Drum, Troubling |
| Goshawks | Flight |
| Grouse | Covey (single family) Brood (large group) Pack |
| Guillemots | Bazaar |
| Gulls | Colony, Pack |
| Hawks | Cast, Leash, Kettle |
| Hens | Brood |
| Herons | Sedge, Siege |
| Hummingbirds | Shimmer, Charm |
| Jays | Band, Party |
| Lapwings | Desert, Deceit |
| Larks | Exaltation, Bevy, Ascension |
| Magpies | Tittering, Tiding |
| Mallards | Sord (on land) Flush, Sute (on water) Puddling |
| Merlins | Leash |
| Nightingales | Watch, Match |
| Owls | Parliament, Stare |
| Parrots | Flock, Company |
| Partridges | Covey, Bew |
| Peacocks | Muster, Ostentation, Pride |
| Penguins | Raft (in water), Waddle (on dry land) |
| Pheasants | Nye, Bouquet |
| Pigeons | Flight, Flock |
| Plovers | Congregation, Leash, Wing |
| Poultry | Run |
| Puffins | Raft |
| Quail | Bevy, Covey |
| Ravens | Unkindness, Conspiracy |
| Rooks | Parliament, Building, Clamour |
| Ruffs | Hill |
| Sea Fowl | Cloud |
| Seagulls | Squabble |
| Sheldrakes | Dopping, Doading |
| Snipe | (at rest) Walk (in flight) Wisp |
| Sparrows | Host, Quarrel, Tribe |
| Starlings | Murmuration |
| Storks | Mustering |
| Swallows | Flight |
| Swans | Herd, Bank, Bevy, Game, Squadron, Wedge, Whiteness, Drift |
| Swifts | Flock |
| Teal | Spring, Coil, Knob, Raft |
| Terns | Dread |
| Thrushes | Mutation |
| Turkeys | Flock, Dole, Dule, Raffle, Raft, Rafter |
| Turtledoves | Pitying |
| Vultures | Wake |
| Waterfowl | Plump |
| Widgeon | Company, Bunch, Coil, Knob |
| Wildfowl | Trip |
| Woodcock | Fall, Covey, Plump |
| Woodpeckers | Descent |
| Wrens | Herd |
| Total: 71 |
Database updated on 28th Nov 2007 at 5:39pm
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