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This is a list of traditional or whimsical collective nouns. The large number of collective nouns in English is based on a tradition of venery (words for groups of animals) which arose in the Late Middle Ages.
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Subject,Collective Noun,NotesA,,alligators,congregation,antelopes,herd,ants,army,,colony,,nest,,swarm,apes,shrewdness,,troop,asses,herd,driven in a group,drove,,pace or passe,B,,baboons,troop,badgers,cete,bats,colony,bears,sleuth or sloth,beavers,colony,,family,bees,swarm,,drift,,erst,,grist,birds,flock,fanciful,dissimulation,,flight,,pod,bishops,bench,bitterns,sedge or sege,boars (wild boars),sounder,12 or moreboys,blush,buffalo,herd,bullfinches,bellowing,bullocks,drove,driven in a groupbutlers,draught,butterflies,flutter,,swarm,buzzards,wake,C,,camels,caravan,,flock,,train,capercaillie,tok,capons,mews,caribou,herd,cats,clowder,destruction,cluster or clutter,,glaring,,pounce,,cats (wild cats),caterpillars,army,cattle,herd,,drove,chickens,brood,,clutch,,peep,choughs,chattering or clattering,cobblers,drunkenship or drunkship,colts,rag,,rake,cormorants,gulp,cooks,hastiness,coots,covert,coyotes,pack,cranes,herd,,sedge or sege,crocodiles,bask,,float,crows,murder,curlews,herd,D,,deer,herd,,bunch,,mob,,parcel,,rangale,dogs,pack,dogfish,troop,dolphins,pod,,school,,team,dotterel,trip,doves,dole or dule,fanciful,flight,,piteousness,fancifulducks,flock,,badling,,brace,,bunch,on water,paddling,on water,plump,,raft,on water,skein,in flight,sord or sore,,string,in flight,team,in flight,waddling,dunlins,fling,E,,eagles,convocation,eels,bed,,swarm,elephants,herd,elk,gang,emus,mob,F,,ferrets,business,corruption over time of 'busyness',busyness,,fesnyng,finches,charm or chirm,fish,school,,shoal,flamingoes,stand,flies,business,,cloud,,swarm,foresters,stalk,foxes,leash,,skulk,frogs,army,G,,geese,flock,on land,gaggle,on land,plump,flying close,skein,in flight,team,in flight,wedge,in flightgiraffes,herd,,corps,,tower,gnats,cloud,,horde,,rabble,,swarm,goats,flock,,herd,,tribe,,trip or trippe,gods,pantheon,See Pantheongoldfinches,charm,goosanders,dopping,gorillas,band,,whoop,goshawks,flight,grasshoppers,cloud,,swarm,grouse,covey,,pack,guineafowl,rasp,H,,hares,down,,drove,,flick,,husk,hawks,boil,two or more spiralling in flight,cast,,kettle,flying in large numbers,lease,harts,herd,hedgehogs,array,herons,sedge or sege,,siege,hermits,observance,hippopotamuses,bloat,hogs,parcel,"See also boars, pigs, swine"horses,team,in harness,band,,haras or harrase,,herd,,stable,,string,,stud,hounds,pack,,cry,,hunt,,meet,,mute,,stable,hyenas,cackle,I,,ibex,herd,ibises,colony,iguanas,mess,insects,flight,,horde,,plague,,rabble,,swarm,J,,jackdaws,train,,clattering,jays,band,,party,,scold,jellyfish,fluther,,smack,K,,kangaroos,mob,,troop,L,,lapwings,deceit or desert,larks,bevy,,exaltation,leopards,leap or lepe,lions,pride,,sawt,M,,mackerel,shoal,magpies,charm,,congregation,,gulp,,murder,,tiding,,tittering,mallards,brace,,flush,,puddling,,sord,,suit or sute,mares,stud,martens,richesse or richness,mice,nest,,mischief,,trip,minnows,shoal,moles,company,,labor or labour,monkeys,barrel,,cartload,,tribe,,troop,moorhens,plump,moose,herd,mosquitoes,scourge,mudhens,fleet,mules,barren,,pack,,rake,,span,N,,nightingales,watch,nuns,superfluity,O,,owls,parliament,oxen,drove,,team,,yoke,P,,parrots,company,,pandemonium,partridges,covey,peacocks,muster,,ostentation,,pride,pelicans,pod,pheasants,bouquet,,head,,nest,,nide,,nye,pigs,drift,"See also boars, hogs, swine",drove,pipers,poverty,pigeons,kit,flying togetherplovers,congregation,,stand,,wing,Q,,quail,bevy,,covey,,drift,R,,raccoons,gaze,ravens,unkindness,rhinoceroses,crash,rooks,building,,parliament,S,,salmon,bind,,draught,,run,sandpipers,fling,seals,herd,,pod,,club,sheep,flock,,down,,drift,when driven in a group,drove,when driven in a group,herd,,hurtle,,meinie,,mob,,parcel,,trip,sheldrake,dopping,snails,escargatoire,,rout,,walk,snakes,bed,,den,,knot,,nest,,pit,snipe,walk,,whisp or wisp,sparrows,host,,meinie,,tribe,spiders,cluster or clutter,squirrels,colony,,dray,,scurry,starlings,chattering,,clattering,,cloud,,congregation,,murmuration,stoats,pack,,trip,storks,flight,,mustering,,phalanx,when migratingswallows,flight,,gulp,swans,bank,on the ground,bevy,,drift,,eyrar,,flight,,game,,herd,,lamentation,fanciful,sownder,,team,,wedge,in flight,whiting,swifts,flock,,scream,swine,doylt,"See also boars, hogs, pigs",drift,,trip,T,,teal,spring,tigers,ambush,,streak,toads,knot,,nest,trout,hover,turkeys,gang,,rafter,turtles,bale,,dole,,nest,turtle doves,dole or dule,,pitying,U,,V,,vipers,nest,W,,walruses,herd,,pod,waterfowl,bunch,,knob,,raft,weasels,colony,,pack,whales,gam,,herd,,mob,,pod,wigeons,company,,trip,wildfowl,bunch,,knob,fewer than 30,plump,,trip,wolves,pack,,rout or route,when in movementwoodcocks,fall,woodpeckers,descent,wrens,herd,X,,Y,,Z,,zebras,herd,,cohort,,dazzle,,zeal,,,For other more formats kindly visit www.downloadexcelfiles.com,,,,Original source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_in_English,,