BIRD	ADJECTIVE(S)
Bitterns	Siege
Chickens	Brood, Cletch, Clutch or Peep
Choughs	Chattering or Clattering
Coots	Covert
Cranes	Herd
Crows	Murder
Curlew	Herd
Dotterel	Trip
Doves	Dole, Flight, Pitiousness or Prettying
Ducks (in Flight)	Team
Ducks (on Water)	Bunch, Paddling or Raft
Dunlins	Fling
Eagles	Convocation
Finches	Charm, Chirm or Trembling
Geese (in Flight)	Skein, Team or Wedge
Geese (on Ground)	Gaggle
Grouse	Covey or Pack
Hawks (let Fly)	Cast
Herons	Siege
Lapwings	Deceit or Desert
Larks	Bevy or Exaltation
Magpies	Tidings or Tittering
Mallard	Sord or Sute
Martens	Richesse
Nightingales	Watch
Owls	Parliament
Partridges	Covey
Peacocks	Muster or Ostentation
Penguins	Rookery
Pheasants	Bouquet,Head, Nye or Brace (Dead)
Pigeons (in Flight)	Kit
Plovers	Congregation, Stand or Wing
Pochards	Flight or Rush
Ptarmigan	Covey
Quail	Bevy or Drift
Ravens	Unkindness
Rooks	Building, Clamour, Rookery or Parliament
Ruffs	Hill
Sheldrake	Dopping
Snipe	Walk, Whisper or Wisp
Sparrows	Host or Quarrel
Starlings	Murmuration
Swallows	Flight
Swans (in Flight)	Wedge
Swans	Game, Herd or Pair
Teal	Spring
Thrushes	Mutation
Waterfowl	Bunch or Knob
Widgeon	Company or Trip
Wildfowl	Bunch, Plump or Trip
Woodcock	Fall or Plump
Wrens	Herd
Note : For just about all birds, the male is the cock, female the hen and offspring their chicks. For this reason this has not been included in the above table. There are a few exceptions such as swans with Cob, Pen and Cygnet, geese with Gander, Goose and Gosling and ducks with Drake, Duck and Duckling. These only go to help prove the rule though.

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