Animal Collective Nouns

A pride of lions, a murder of crows, a crash of rhinos, and every other collective noun for animals. This is a listing of every animal congregation I could find after scouring the web.

Animal Albatross Alligators Apes Antelope Ants Asses Auks Baboons Bacteria Badgers Barracudas Bats Bass Bears (General) Bears (Cubs) Beavers Bees

Group Name Rookery Congregation Shrewdness, Troop Herd Colony, Army, Swarm, Nest Pace, Herd, Drove Colony, Flock, Raft Troop, Flange Culture Cete, Colony, Set, Company Battery Colony, Cloud Shoal Sloth, Sleuth Litter Colony, Family Grist, Hive, Swarm, Nest

Animal Buffalo Bullfinches Bullocks Butterflies Buzzards Camels Capons Caribou Caterpillars

Group Name Herd, Troop, Gang, Obstinancy Bellowing Drove Flight, Flutter, rabble, swarm, Kaleidoscope Wake Caravan, Train, Flock Mews Herd

Army Clowder, Clutter, Pounce, Dout, Cats (General) Nuisance, Glorying, Glare Cats (Kittens) Kindle, Litter, Intrigue Cats (Wild) Destruction Cattle Cheetahs Chickens (General) Chickens (Chicks) Chinchilla Choughs Clams Cobras Cockroaches Cod Coots Cormorants Cows Coyotes Drove, Herd, Team Coalition Brood, Peep Clutch, Chattering Colony Clattering Bed Quiver Intrusion Lap Cover, Raft Gulp Kine Band

Birds (Chicks) Brood, Clutch Birds (Flight) Birds (Game) Flight Volary, Brace, Plump, Knob

Birds (Ground) Flock, Dissimulation Birds (Sea) Bison Bitterns Wreck Herd Sedge, Seige

Bloodhounds Sute Bobolinks Chain

Animal Crabs Cranes Crocodiles Crows Curlews Deer (General) Deer (Buck) Deer (Roe) Dogs (General) Dogs (Curs) Dogs (Hounds) Dogs (Puppies) Dogs (Wild) Dolphins Donkeys Dotterel Doves (General) Doves (Turtle) Ducks (Flight) Ducks (Ground) Ducks (Water) Dunlins Eagles Eels Elephants Elk Emus Falcons Ferrets

Group Name Cast Sedge, Seige Bask, Float Murder, Horde, Parcel, Storytelling Herd Herd, Leash, Gang Brace, Clash Bevy Kennel Cowardice Cry, Mute, Pack Litter Pack Pod Drove, Pace, Herd Trip Dule, Bevy, Cote, Dole, Paddling Pitying, Piteousness Flock Brace, badling Raft, Team, Paddling Fling Convocation, Aerie Swarm, Bed, Fry Herd, Memory Gang, Herd Mob Cast Business, Cast, Fesnying

Animal Finches Fish (General) Fish (Caught) Flamingoes Flies Frogs Fox Geese (General)

Group Name Charm Draft, Nest, Shoal, School ("school" is possibly a corruption of shoal) Catch, Drought, Haul Stand, Flamboyance Business, Swarm, Cloud Army, Colony, Knot Leash, Skulk, Earth, Lead, Troop Flock

Geese (Flight) Skein Geese (Ground) Giraffes Gnats Gnus Goats Goldfinches Goldfish Gorillas Goshawks Gaggle, Herd, Corps Tower Cloud, Horde, Swarm Implausibility Tribe, Trip, Drove, Herd, Flock Charm Glint, Troubling Band, Troop Flight

Grasshoppers Cloud Greyhounds Grouse Guillemots Gulls Guinea Fowl Hawks (General) Leash Pack, Covey Bazaar Colony, Screech Confusion Cast

Hawks (Flight) Kettle Hawks (Spiraling) Hedgehogs Herons Boil Array Sedge, Siege, Hedge

Animal Herring

Group Name Army, Shoal

Animal Monkeys Moose Mosquitoes Mudhens Mules Nightingales Otters Owls Oxen Oysters Parrots Partridge Peacocks Pekingese Pelicans Penguins (General) Penguins (Nursery) Pheasants (General) Pheasants (Brood) Pheasants (Take-Off) Pigeons

Group Name Troop, Barrel, Carload, Cartload, Tribe Herd Scourge Fleet Pack, Span, Barren, Rake Watch Romp, Bevy, Family, Raft Parliament, Stare Team, Yoke, Drove Bed Company, Pandemonium Covey, Bew Muster, Ostentation, Pride Pomp Pod Colony, Rookery, Huddle Crche Nest, Nye Nide Bouquet Flight, Flock, Kit

Hippopotamus Bloat es Hornets Horses (General) Nest, Bike Team, Harras, Stable, Troop, Stud (a group belonging to one owner)

Horses (Colts) Rag, Rake Horses (Ponies) String

Horses (Wild) Herd Hummingbirds Charm Hyenas Impalas Insects Jays Jellyfish Kangaroos Lapwings Larks Leopards Lice Lions Lizards Locusts Magpies Mallards (General) Mallards (Flight) Martens Mice Midges Minnows Moles Cackle, Clan Herd Horde, Nest, Swarm, Rabble, Plague Party, Scold, Band Smack, Brood Troop, Mob, Herd Deceit Exaltation, Ascension Leap Flock Pride, Sault, Troop Lounge Plague Tiding, Gulp, Murder, Charm Brace Sord Richness Mischief Bite Shoal, Steam, Swarm Labor, Company, Movement

Pigs (General) Drift, Drove Pigs (Boars) Pigs (Hogs) Pigs (Piglets) Pigs (Swine) Pilchards Plovers (General) Plovers (Flight) Singular, Sounder Team, Passel, Drift, Parcel Litter, Farrow Sounder Shoal Congregation Wing

Animal Polecats Porcupines Porpoises Prairie Dogs Ptarmigans Quail Rabbits (General) Rabbits (Domestic) Rabbits (Hares) Rabbits (Jackrabbit) Rabbits (Young) Raccoons Rats Rattlesnakes Ravens Reindeer

Group Name Chine Prickle Herd, Pod, School, Crowd, Shoal Coterie Covey Bevy, Covey Colony, Warren, Bury, Trace, Trip Herd Down, Husk Husk Litter, Nest Gaze Colony, Pack, Plague, Swarm Rhumba Unkindness, Storytelling Herd

Animal Sheldrakes Skylarks Squirrels Snails Snakes Snipe Sparrows Spiders Springbok Squirrels Starlings Stingrays Stoats Storks Swallows Swans (General)

Group Name Doading Exultation Dray, Scurry Escargatoire, Rout, Walk Den, Nest, Pit, Bed, Knot Walk, Wisp Host Cluster, Clutter Herd Dray, Scurry Murmuration, Chattering Fever Pack, Trip Mustering, Muster Flight, Gulp Bevy, Bank, Herd

Rhinoceroses Crash, Stubbornness Roebucks Rooks Ruffs Salamandars Salmon Sandpipers Sardines Scorpions Seabirds Seals Sharks Sheep Bevy Building, Clamor, Parliament Hill Congress Run Fling Family Bed, Nest Wreck Pod, Bob, Harem, Herd, Rookery Shiver, School, Shoal Drove, Flock, Down, Hurtle, Fold, Pack, Trip

Swans (Flight) Wedge, Flight Swifts Teal Termites Thrush Tigers Toads Trout Turkeys Turtles Turtle Doves Vipers Vultures Flock Spring Colony, Nest, Swarm, Brood Mutation Streak, Ambush Knot, Knab, Nest Hover Rafter, Gang, Posse Bale, Nest, Turn, Dole Pitying, Dule Generation, Nest Venue

Animal Vultures (Circling) Walruses Wasps Waterfowl Weasles Whales Widgeons Wildfowl Wolves (General) Wolves (Moving) Wombats Woodcocks

Group Name Kettle Herd, Pod Nest, Swarm Knob, Plump Gang, Colony, Pack Pod, Gam, Herd, School, Mod Company Plump Pack Route, Rout Wisdom Fall

Woodpeckers Descent Worms Wrens Zebras Bed, Clew, Bunch, Clat Herd Zeal, Crossing, Dazzle, Cohorts, Herd