| Birds | |
| Species | Collective Term |
| 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 |
| Dunlin | Fling |
| Eagles | Convocation |
| Falcons | Cast |
| Finches | Charm, Trimming, Trembling |
| Geese | (at rest) Gaggle, Flock, Nide |
| Goldfinches | Glister, Charm, Chattering, Drum, Troubling |
| Goshawks | Flight |
| Grouse | Covey |
| Guillemots | Bazaar |
| Gulls | Colony, Pack |
| Hawks | Cast, Leash, Kettle |
| Hens | Brood |
| Herons | Sedge, Siege |
| Hummingbirds | Shimmer, Charm |
| Jays | Band, Party |
| Lapwings | Desert, Deceit |
| Larks | Exultation, Bevy, Ascension |
| Magpies | Tittering, Tiding |
| Mallards | Sord |
| Nightingales | Match, Watch |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| | 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 |
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Collective Nouns - Birds
Labels: Collective Nouns, Word Groups
Posted by safibaig at 1:34 PM
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