People
a blush of boys
a drunkship of cobblers
a hastiness of cooks
a stalk of foresters
an observance of hermits
a bevy of ladies
a faith of merchants
a superfluity of nuns
a malapertness (= impertinence) of pedlars
a pity of prisoners
a glozing (= fawning) of taverners
Animals
a shrewdness of apes
a chattering or clattering of choughs
a rag or rake of colts
a covert of coots
a cowardice of curs
a trip of dotterel
a flight or dole or piteousness of doves
a raft or bunch or paddling of ducks on water
a fling of dunlins
a gang of elk
a charm or chirm of finches
a pack or covey of grouse
a cast of hawks
a siege of herons
a desert of lapwing
an exaltation or a bevy of larks
a tiding of magpies
a sord or suit of mallard
a richesse of martens
a barren of mules
a watch of nightingales
a covey of partridges
a muster of peacocks
a head or nye of pheasants
a kit of pigeons flying together
a stand or wing or congregation of plovers
a rush or flight of pochards
a covey of ptarmigan
a bevy or drift of quail
a string of racehorses
an unkindness of ravens
a bevy of roes
a parliament or building of rooks
a hill of ruffs
a dopping of sheldrake
a wisp or walk of snipe
a host of sparrows
a murmuration of starlings
a flight of swallows
a game of swans; a wedge of swans in the air
a spring of teal
a bunch or knob or raft of waterfowl
a company or trip of wigeon
a destruction of wild cats
a bunch or trip or plump or knob (less than 30) of wildfowl
a drift of wild pigs
a fall of woodcock
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