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 | |
Dotterels | Trip (mentioned by Bill Oddie on Nature Watch) | |
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 | |
Jackdaws | Train (confirmed by RSPB librarian) | |
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: 73 |
Database updated on 10th Apr 2016 at 2:00pm
Last edit: 10th Apr 2016 at 1:59pm |
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