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 Miró - Vegetable Garden with Donkey (cropped), 1918, oil on canvas

Some Group Names for Different Animals
Listed alphabetically by animal
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A  congregation of  alligators
A  herd  of  antelope
An  army (or) swarm (or) colony  of  ants
A  shrewdness  of  apes
A  herd (or) pace  of  asses


A  cete  of  badgers
A  battery  of  barracuda
A  shoal  of  bass
A  colony  of  bats
A  sleuth (or) sloth  of  bears
A  colony  of  beavers
A  swarm (or) grist  of  bees
An erst (or) grist (or) hive  of  bees
A  congregation (or) flock (or) volery (or) dissimulation  of  birds
A  sedge (or) siege  of  bitterns
A  sounder (or) singular  of  boars
A  chain  of  bobolinks
A  brace (or) clash  of  bucks
A  herd (or) obstinancy of  buffalo
A  flutter of butterflies
A  wake  of  buzzards



A  caravan  of  camels
A  tok  of  capercailzies
An army  of  caterpillars
A  clowder (or) pounce of  cats
A  herd (or) drove  of  cattle
A  brood  of  chickens
A  peep  of  chickens
A  chattering (or) clutch  of  chicks
A  chattering  of  choughs
A  bed  of  clams
A  quiver  of  cobras
An intrusion  of  cockroaches
A  rag (or) rake  of  colts
A  bury  of  conies
A  cover  of  coots
A  flight (or) gulp  of  cormorants
A  kine  of  cows
A  flink  of  cows [twelve or more]
A  band  of  coyote
A  siege (or) sedge  of  cranes
A  bask (or) float  of  crocodiles
A  murder  of  crows
A  litter  of  cubs
A  herd  of  curlews
A  cowardice  of  curs



A  herd  of  deer
A  pack  of  dogs
A  pace  of  donkeys
A  trip  of  dotterel
A  arc (or) dole (or) flight (or) pitying  of  doves
A  team  of  ducks [while flying]
A  raft  of  ducks [while idle in water]
A  paddling  of  ducks [while swimming]


A  convocation (or) aerie  of  eagles
A  herd (or) memory  of  elephants
A  gang (or) herd  of  elk
A  mob  of  emus


A  cast  of  falcons
A  business  of  ferrets
A  charm  of  finches
A  school (or) catch (or) haul (or) run (or) shoal (or) draught  of  fish
A  stand  (or)  flamboyance  of  flamingos
A  swarm (or) business  of  flies
A  leash (or) skulk  of  foxes
A  colony (or) army  of  frogs


A  wedge  of  geese [flying in a "V"]
A  skein  of  geese in flight
A  gaggle  of  geese on the ground
A  tower  of  giraffes
A  swarm (or) cloud (or) horde  of  gnats
A  herd (or) trip (or) tribe  of  goats
A  cloud of goldfish
A  band  of  gorillas
A  flight  of  goshawks
A  cluster  of  grasshoppers
A  leash  of  greyhounds
A  brace (or) covey (or) pack  of  grouse
A  colony  of  gulls


A  down (or) husk (or) leap  of  hares
A  cast (or) kettle (or) boil  of  hawks
A  brood  of  hens
A  hedge (or) sedge (or) siege  of  herons
A  shoal (or) army  of  herring
A  crash (or) bloat  of  hippopotami
A  drift (or) parcel (or) passel  of  hogs
A  team (or) harras  of  horses
A  pack (or) cry (or) mute  of  hounds
A  cackle  of  hyenas


A  husk  of  jackrabbits
A  band (or) party (or) scold  of  jays
A  fluther (or) smack (or) smuth  of  jellyfish


A  mob (or) troop  of  kangaroos
A  litter (or) kindle  of  kittens


A  deceit  of  lapwings
An  ascension (or) exaltation  of  larks
A  leap  of  leopards
A  flock  of  lice
A  pride  of  lions
A  lounge of lizards
A  plague  of  locusts


A  tiding (or) gulp  of  magpies
A  sord  of  mallards
A  stud  of  mares
A  richness  of  martens
A  click (or) nest  of  mice


A  labour  of  moles
A  troup (or) tribe  of  monkeys
A  span (or) barren  of  mules


A  watch  of  nightingales


A  romp  of  otters
A  parliament (or) wisdom  of  owls
A  drove (or) herd (or) team (or) yoke  of  oxen
A  bed  of  oysters


A  company (or) pandemonium  of  parrots
A  covey  of  partridges
A  muster (or) ostentation  of  peacocks
A  colony  of  penguins
A  nye (or) nide (or) bouquet  of  pheasants [on the ground]
A  litter  of  pigs
A  drift (or) drove (or) sounder of pigs
A  flight (or) flock  of  pigeons
A  shoal  of  pilchards
A  wing (or) congregation  of  plovers
A  rush  of  pochard
A  prickle of porcupines
A  passel  of  possums
A  string  of  ponies
A  herd (or) pod  of  porpoises
A  coterie of prairie dogs
A  covey  of  ptarmigans


A  bevy  of  quail
A  covey  of  quail


A  colony (or) warren (or) nest  of  rabbits
A  gaze  of  raccoons
A  pack (or) swarm  of  rats
A  rhumba  of  rattlesnakes
An unkindness (or) conspiracy  of  ravens
A  crash of rhinocerus
A  bevy  of  roebucks
A  clamour (or) building (or) parliament  of  rooks


A  run of salmon
A  herd (or) pod (or) spring  of  seals
A  shoal  of  shad
A  flock  of  sheep
A  stench (or) shiver  of  skunks
A  nest (or) bed  of  snakes
A  wisp (or) walk  of  snipe
A  host  of  sparrows
A  clutter  of  spiders
A  dray (or) scurry  of  squirrels
A  murmuration  of  starlings
A  mustering  of  storks
A  flight  of  swallows
A  herd (or) bevy (or) lamentation  of  swans
A  wedge  of  swans [flying in a "V"]
A  flock  of  swifts
A  drift (or) sounder  of  swine


A  spring  of  teal
A  streak (or) ambush  of  tigers
A  knot  of  toads
A  hover  of  trout
A  rafter (or) raft  of  turkeys
A  dule (or) pitying  of  turtledoves
A  bale (or) dole  of  turtles


A  blessing  of  unicorns


A  nest (or) generation  of  vipers


A  pod  of  walrus
A  pladge  of  wasps
A  plump  of  waterfowl
A  sneak  of  weasels
A  school (or) gam (or) pod  of  whales
A  raft (or) company  of  widgeon
A  pack (or) rout  of  wolves
A  fall  of  woodcocks
A  descent  of  woodpeckers
A  herd  of  wrens


A  zeal  of  zebras




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