• collective nouns for animals - an extensive list

    From Dr. Jai Maharaj@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 13 17:01:37 2017
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    In alt.usage.english, in article
    <oml63p$1jn$1@dont-email.me>,
    occam <oc...@127.0.0.1> posted:

    I found this article that has gone to great lengths to
    list and extensive list of collective nouns for animals.

    Your mission, should you accept it, is to add to the
    list. (10 points for each authenticated addition.)

    https://www.colleenpatrickgoudreau.com/a-gaggle-of-geese-a-pride-of-lions-a-school-of-fish-and-more-collective-animal-nouns-2/

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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

    Why mess with all that when "a buncha critters" covers
    'em all?

    Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
    Om Shanti

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