Collective Nouns
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Antelopes | A Herd
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| Apes | A Shrewdness
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| Asses | A Drove
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| Baboons | A Troop
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| Badgers | A Cete
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| Bats | A Colony
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| Bears | A Sloth or Sleuth
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| Beavers | A Colony or Family
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| Bison | A Herd
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| Birds | A FLOCK, FLIGHT or PARCEL of birds.
A POD of birds (small flock)
A VOLARY of birds (in an aviary)
A BRACE a pair of game birds or waterfowl *
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| Bitterns | A SEDGE of bitterns.
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| Boar | A SOUNDER or SINGULAR of wild boar
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| Budgerigars | A CHATTER of budgerigars.
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| Buffalo | A HERD, TROUP, GANG or OBSTINACY of buffalo
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| Bullocks | A DROVE of bullocks.
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| Camels | A CARAVAN, FLOCK or TRAIN of camels.
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| Caterpillars | An ARMY of caterpillars.
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| Cats | A CLOWDER of cats.
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| Cheetahs | A COALITION of cheetahs
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| Chickens | A BROOD, CLUTCH, FLOCK, RUN or PEEP of chickens
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| Chicks | A CLUTCH OR CHATTERING of chicks.
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| Choughs | A CHATTERING of choughs.
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| Clams | A BED of clams
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| Coati | A BAND of coati (coatimundi)
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| Cobras | A QUIVER of cobras
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| Cockroaches | An INTRUSION of cockroaches.
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| Colts | A RAG of colts.
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| Cormorants | A GULP (SOLITUDE) OR FLIGHT of cormorants.
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| Cows | A HERD of cows.
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| Coyotes | A PACK of coyotes
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| Crabs | A BUSHEL of crabs (for eating)
A CAST of crabs (for live examples)
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| Cranes | A HERD, SEIGE or SEDGE* of cranes
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| Crocodiles | A BASK of crocodiles
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| Crows | A MURDER of crows
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| Cubs | A LITTER of cubs
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| Curlew | A HERD of curlew
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| Curs | A COWARDICE of curs.
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| Dolphins | A SCHOOL of dolphins or
A POD of dolphins.
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| Eagles | CONVOCATION of eagles
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| Eels | An ARRAY of eels or
A SEETHING of eels.
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| Elephant | A HERD or PARADE of elephants
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| Elk | A HERD or GANG of elk
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| Emu | A MOB of emus.
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| Finches | A CHARM of finches
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| Ferrets | A BUSYNESS of ferrets
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| Fish | A SHOAL, DRAFT, NEST, SCHOOL* of fish.
A RUN of fish in motion.
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| Flamingoes | A STAND or
A FLAMBOYANCE of flamingos.
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| Flies | A CLOUD, HATCH, or SWARM of flies.
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