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A Murder, a Kettle or a Parliament

Prefer your birds en masse?

Try some of these collective nouns …

 

Birds in General

A flock, dissimulation or volery

Bitterns

A siege or sedge

Chickens

A peep

Coots

A cover or raft

Cormorants

A flight

Cranes

A sedge

Crows

A congress or murder

Curlews

A herd

Doves

A dule, flight, dole, cote or piteousness

Ducks

A paddling, raft, team or dopping

Dunlin

A fling

Eagles

A convocation

Falcons

A cast

Finches

A charm or trembling

Flamingos

A flamboyance

Geese

A gaggle or skein

Goshawks

A flight

Grouse

A brace or covey

Gulls

A colony

Hawks

A kettle or cast

Hens (chickens)

A brood

Herons

A siege

Kingfishers

A concentration

Lapwings

A deceit

Larks

An exaltation

Mallards

A sord, flush or puddling

Owls

A parliament or wisdom

Parrots

A company

Partridges

A covey

Peacocks

An ostentation or a murder

Pelicans

A squadron

Penguins

A colony, huddle or pride

Plovers

A congregation, wing or leash

Quail

A bevy or covey

Ravens

A conspiracy, constable or an unkindness

Snipe

A walk or wisp

Sparrows

A host or quarrel

Starlings

A murmuration

Storks

A mustering

Swallows

A flight

Swans

A ballet, bevy, herd or whiteness

Teal

A spring

Turtledoves

A pitying

Waterfowl

A plump

Woodpeckers

A descent

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