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COLLECTIVE NOUNS FOR ANIMALS

 An ambush of tigers
 An array of hedgehogs
 An army of ants/caterpillars/frogs
 An ascension of larks
 A badling of ducks
 A bale of turtles
 A ballet of swans
 A band of coyotes/gorillas/jays/men
 A barrel of monkeys
 A barren of mules
 A bask of crocodiles
 A battery of barracudas
 A bazaar of guillemots
 A bed of clams/eels/oysters/snakes
 A bevy of quail/roebucks/swans
 A bloat of hippos
 A bouquet of pheasants
 A brace of ducks/grouse
 A brood of chicks/hens/pheasants
 A building of rooks
 A bury of conies/rabbits
 A business of ferrets/flies
 A caravan of camels
 A cast of falcons/hawks
 A cete of badgers
 A chain of bobolinks
 A charm of falcons/finches/magpies
 A chattering of choughs
 A clamor of rooks
 A cloud of gnats/bats/grasshoppers
 A clowder of cats
 A cluster of bees/grasshoppers
 A clutch of chicks
 A clutter of cats/starlings
 A colony of ants/beavers/gulls/penguins/rabbits
 A company of parrots/widgeons
 A congregation of plover/people
 A congress of baboons
 A conspiracy of ravens
 A convocation of eagles
 A cover of coots
 A covey of grouse/partridges/pheasants/ptarmigans/quail
 A cowardice of curs
 A crash of rhinos
 A crowd of people
 A cry of hounds
 A culture of bacteria
 A deceit of lapwings
 A descent of woodpeckers
 A dissimulation of birds
 A dole of doves
 A down of hares
 A doylt of swine
 A draught of fish
 A dray of squirrels
 A drift of swine
 A dropping of pigeons
 A drove of cattle
 A drumming of grouse
 A dule of doves
 A durante of toucans
 An earth of foxes
 An exaltation of larks
 A fall of woodcocks
 A family of otter
 A fesnyng of ferrets
 A field of racehorses
 A flight of birds/butterflies/cormorants/doves/goshawks/swallows
 A flink of cows (12+)
 A float of crocodiles
 A flock of geese/lice/sheep
 A fluther of jellyfish
 A gaggle of geese
 A gam of whales
 A gang of buffalo/elk
 A gatling of woodpeckers
 A generation of vipers
 A grist of bees
 A gulp of cormorants/magpies
 A harras of horses
 A herd of buffaloes/curlews/elephants/horse/kangaroo/pigs/wrens
 A hide of tigers
 A hive of bees
 A horde of gnats
 A host of sparrows
 A hover of trout
 A hum of bees
 A husk of hares/jackrabbits
 An intrigue of kittens
 An intrusion of cockroaches
 A kennel of dogs
 A kettle of hawks
 A kindle of kittens
 A kine of cows
 A knot of snakes/toads
 A labour of moles
 A lamentation of swans
 A leap of hares/leopards
 A leash of foxes/greyhounds
 A litter of cubs/pigs/puppies
 A mask of raccoons
 A mob of kangaroos/emus
 A murder of crows/magpies
 A murmuration of starlings
 A muster of peacocks
 A mustering of storks
 A mutation of thrushes
 A mute of hounds
 An obstinacy of buffalo
 An ostentation of peacocks
 A muster of storks
 A mute of hounds
 A nest of hornets/mice/rabbits/vipers/wasps
 A nye/nide of pheasants
 A pace of asses
 A pack of hounds/rats/wolves
 A paddling of ducks
 A pair of horses
 A pandemonium of parrots
 A parade of elephants
 A parliament of owls/rooks
 A party of jays
 A passel/parcel of hogs
 A peep of chickens
 A piteousness of doves
 A pitying of turtledoves
 A pladge of wasps
 A plague of locusts
 A plump of waterfowl/wildfowl
 A pod of boar/dolphin/seals/walrus/whales
 A pounce of cats
 A prattle of parrots
 A prickle of hedgehogs/porcupines
 A pride of lions
 A quiver of cobras
 A rafter of turkeys
 A rag of colts
 A ramuda of horses
 A rhumba of rattlesnakes
 A richness of martens
 A romp of otters
 A rookery of penguins
 A rout of wolves
 A rumpus of baboons
 A run of poultry
 A rush of pochard
 A school of fish/porposes
 A scold of jays
 A sedge of cranes
 A shiver of sharks
 A shoal of bass/pilchards/shad
 A shrewdness of apes
 A siege of cranes/herons
 A singular of boars
 A skein of geese/pheasants
 A skulk of foxes/larks/quail
 A sleuth/sloth of bears
 A smack/smuth of jellyfish
 A sneak of weasels
 A sord of mallards
 A sounder of wild swine/boars/foxes
 A span of mules
 A spring of teal
 A squabble of seagulls
 A stand of flamingo
 A stench of skunks
 A streak of tigers
 A string of ponies/horses
 A stud of mares
 A swarm of ants/bees/eels
 A team of horses/ducks/oxen
 A swarm of bees
 A thunder of hippos
 A tiding of magpies
 A tittering of magpies
 A tok of capercaillie
 A totter/tower of giraffes
 A tribe of goats/monkeys/dotterel
 A trip of goats
 A troop of baboons/monkeys/kangaroos
 A turn of turtles
 An ubiquity of sparrows
 An unkindness of ravens
 A volary of birds
 A wake of buzzards/vultures
 A walk of snipe
 A warren of rabbits
 A watch of nightingales
 A wedge of geese/swans
 A wing of plovers
 A wisdom of owls
 A wisp of snipe
 A yoke of oxen

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