Birds

(alternatives in brackets)

A colony of auks (flock, raft) A colony of avocets A flock of birds (dissimulation, fleet, flight, parcel, pod, volary, ) A sedge of bitterns (siege) A chain of bobolinks A bellowing of bullfinches A flock of bustards A wake of buzzards A tok of capercaillies A muse of capons A brood of chickens (cletch, clutch, peep) A chattering of choughs (clattering) A covert of coots ( commotion, cover, fleet, flock, pod, rasp, swarm) A flight of cormorants (gulp) A sedge of cranes (herd, sedge, siege) A murder of crows ( hover, muster, parcel) A head of curlews (herd) A trip of dotterel A dole of doves ( dule, flight, piteousness, pitying, prettying) A flush of ducks (badelynge, brace, bunch, dopping, flock, paddling, plump, raft, skein, sord, string, team) A flight of dunbirds (rush) A fling of dunlins A convocation of eagles (aerie) A cast of falcons A charm of finches (chirm, trembling, trimming) A stand of flamingos A gaggle of geese (flock, plump, skein, team, wedge) A charm of goldfinches (chattering, drum, troubling) A dopping of goosanders A flight of goshawks A covey of grouse (brace, brood, flight, pack) A bazaar of guillemots A colony of gulls A mews of hawks (aerie, cast, kettle, mew, moulting, screw, stream) A brood of hens A sedge of herons (flight, hedge, rookery, siege) A charm of hummingbirds (chattering, drum, troubling) A colony of ibises A band of jays (party, scold) A desert of lapwings (deceit) A parcel of linnets An exaltation of larks (ascension, bevy, flight) A congregation of magpies (charm, flock, gulp, murder, tiding, tittering, tribe, ) A sord of mallards (flush, puddling, sute)

A plump of moorhens A fleet of mudhens A watch of nightingales (match, pray) A pride of ostriches (flock) A parliament of owls (stare) A fling of oxbirds A company of parrots (flock, pandemonium, psittacosis) A covey of partridges (bevy, bew, clutch, warren) A muster of peacocks (ostentation, pride) A pod of pelicans (scoop) A colony of penguins (parcel, rookery) A cadge of peregrines A nye of pheasants (bouquet, head, nide, warren, ) A flight of pigeons (flock, kit, passel, ) A knob of pintail [small number] A congregation of plovers (band, flight, leash, stand, wing) A rush of pochard (flight, knob[small number]) A run of poultry A covey of ptarmigans A bevy of quail (covey, drift) An unkindness of ravens (aerie, conspiracy) A crowd of redwings A parliament of rooks (building, clamour, congregation, shoal, wing) A hill of ruffs A fling of sandpipers A cloud of seafowl A squabble of seagulls A dopping of sheldrakes (doading) A walk of snipe (wisp) A host of sparrows (meinie, quarrel, tribe, ubiquity) A murmuration of starlings (chattering, cloud, congregation, clutter) A mustering of storks (flight, phalanx) A flight of swallows (gulp) A herd of swans (bank, bevy, drift, eyrar, game, herd, lamentation, sownder, squadron, team, wedge, whiteness, whiting) A flock of swifts A spring of teals (bunch, coil, knob, raft) A mutation of thrushes A flock of turkeys (dole, dule, raffle, raft, rafter, posse) A pitying of turtledoves A wake of vultures A plump of waterfowl (bunch, knob, raft) A company of widgeon (bunch, coil, flight, knob, trip) A trip of wildfowl (bunch, knob, lute, plump,scry, skein, sord) A fall of woodcock (covey, flight, plump) A descent of woodpeckers A herd of wrens (flock)