Birds: | |
Birds in general | - A flight (in the air), flock (on the ground), volary (volery), brace (generally for gamebirds or waterfowl, referring to a pair or couple killed by a hunter), a congregation, pod, A zeal |
Bitterns | A sedge |
Bobolinks | A chain |
Bullfinches | A bellowing |
Bullocks | A drove |
Buzzards | A wake |
Chicken | A brood or clutch or peep of chickens |
Chicks (of species) | A brood; clutch, chattering of chicks |
Choughs | A chattering or clattering of |
Coots | A cover, a covert |
Cormorants | A gulp |
Crane | A sedge, a herd or siege of cranes |
Crows | A murder, horde |
Curlew | A Herd |
Dotterel | A trip |
Doves | A dule, a dole, a piteousness or pitying (specific to turtle doves) |
Ducks | A brace, flock (in flight), raft, bunch, team, or paddling (on water), a safe (on land) badling |
Dunlins | A fling |
Eagles | A convocation |
Emus | A mob of emus |
Finches | A charm or chirm of finches |
Flamingos | A stand, pat, flamboyance |
Geese | A flock, gaggle (on the ground), skein or team or wedge (in flight) |
Goldfinch | A charm of goldfinches |
Grouse | A pack (in late season) or covey of grouse |
Gulls | A colony |
Hawks | A cast, kettle (flying in large numbers), boil (two or more spiraling in flight) |
Hen | A brood of hens |
Heron | A hedge or scattering of herons, A sedge, a siege |
Jays | A party, scold |
Lapwings | A deceit, a desert |
Lark | An ascension or exaltation of larks |
Magpies | A tiding, tittering gulp, murder, charm |
Mallards | A sord (in flight), brace or suit of mallard |
Marten | A richness, or richesse of martens |
Nightingales | A watch |
Owls | A parliament |
Parrots | A company, a pandemonium |
Partridge | A covey |
Peacock | A muster or ostentation of peacocks |
Peep | A litter of peeps |
Penguin | A colony of penguins, muster or parcel or rookery |
Pheasant | A nest, nide (nye) head or bouquet of pheasants |
Pigeon | A flock or flight of pigeons, a kit of flying pigeons |
Plovers | A congregation, stand of plovers, wing (in flight) |
Pochards | A rush or flight |
Ptarmigans | A covey |
Quail | A bevy, covey, drift |
Raven | An unkindness of ravens |
Rook | A building, parliment or clamour of rooks |
Ruffs | A hill |
Sheldrake | A dopping |
Snipe | A walk, a wisp |
Sparrows | A host |
Starlings | A murmuration |
Storks | A mustering |
Swallows | A flight |
Swan | A bevy, herd, lamentation, game; a wedge (in flight) of swans |
Swift | A flock of swifts |
Teal | A spring |
Turkeys | A rafter, gang |
Turtle dove | A pitying or dule of turtle doves |
Widgeons | A company, a trip |
Wild ducks | A team (in flight) |
Wild fowl | A bunch, trip, plump, knob (less than 30) |
Woodcocks | A fall |
Woodpeckers | A descent |
Wrens | A herd |
Monday, June 9, 2014
Bird Group Names
I've found there are many names to call something by, but perhaps some of the most fun are the words for groups of animals.
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