Group
Names For Birds
(listed alphabetically by species)
- auks. -
colony, loomery, raft
- Belted Kingfishers -
crown, rattle; Green - clique
birds -
flight, volery, fleet, flock, parcel, pod
bitterns - dash, freeze, pint, pretense, siege
- blackbirds - cloud,
cluster, merl
bluebirds - (see thrushes)
buntings - decoration, mural, sacrifice
- catbirds - mewing,
seat
chicks - brood, clutch, peep
chickens - flock, brood (of hens)
- Chipping
Sparrows - tournament (see
sparrows)
choughs - chattering
cormorants - flight, gulp, rookery, sunning, swim
coots - covert
- cowbirds - corral,
herd
cranes - sedge, siege, construction, dance, herd,
swoop
- creepers - sleeze,
spiral
- crossbills -
crookedness, warp
crows - murder, cauldron, congress, horde, muster
- cuckoos - cooch,
asylum
curlew - curfew, game, head, herd, salon, skein
- dippers - ladle
doves - dole, dule, flight, piteousness
ducks - brace, team, flush, paddling, raft,
badelynge, bodelyng, bunch, flock
- dunlins - flight,
fling, trip
eagle - aerie, convocation
egrets - sedge, siege, congregation, heronry, skewer
(Cattle - stampede)
falcons
- cast (kestrels - flight, hover, soar; merlins - brace,
leash, illusion)
- Field
Sparrows - crue (see
sparrows)
finches - charm, company, trembling (house finch
- development)
-
flycatchers (phoebes) - outfield, swatting,
zapper, zipper
fowl - skein
- Fox Sparrows
- den, slyness (see sparrows)
frigatebirds - fleet, flotilla
geese - flock, gaggle, skein (flying), wedge
(flying in a "V")
godwits - omniscience, pantheon, prayer
- Golden-crowned
Sparrows - reign (see
sparrows)
goldfinch - charm, rush, treasury, vein
goshawks - half, flight, glare, gross
- grouse - chorus,
covey, drumming, grumbling, leash
grebes - water dance
- grosbeaks - gross
guillemots - bazaar
gulls - colony, flotilla, gullery, screech,
scavenging, squabble
hawks - cast, boil, knot, spiraling, stream, tower,
aerie, kettle (falcon - cast)
- Harris's
Sparrows - poll (see
sparrows)
herons - sedge, siege, battery, hedge, pose,
rookery, scattering
- House
Sparrow - blight, humiliation, subdivision (see
sparrows)
hummingbirds - bouquet,
glittering, hover, shimmer, tune
ibis - congregation, stand, wedge
- jaegers - shishkab
jays - band, party, cast, scold
- kestrels - flight,
hover, soar (see falcons)
killdeer - season (see plovers)
kingbirds - coronation, court, tyranny
- kingfishers -
concentration, relm (Belted - crown, rattle; Green -
clique)
- kinglets - castle,
court, princedom, dynasty
- kites - brood,
kettle, roost, stooping, string
- knots - cluster,
fling, tangle
lapwings - deceit, desert
larks - exaltation, ascension, chattering,
happiness, springul
loons - asylum, cry, loomery, raft, water dance
magpies - tidings
Mallards - flush, sord, battling, daggle, doppling,
lute
martins - circlage, flight, gulp, richness, swoop
(Purple - colony)
- meadowlarks - pod
- merlins - brace,
leash, illusion (see falcons)
mockingbirds - echo, exactness, plagiary, ridicule
moorhens - plump
- murrelets - (of
auks) colony, loomery, and raft
murres - bazaar
nighthawks - kettle
nightingales - watch
nuthatches - jar
- owls - bazaar,
glaring, parliament, stooping, wisdom
parrots - company, pandemonium, prattle,
psittacosis
partridges - covey, bevy, brace, jugging, warren
peacocks - muster, ostentation
pelicans - brief, pod, pouch, scoop, squadron
- phainopeplas - (or
silky flycatchers) stand, strand
- phalaropes - dopping,
swirl, twirl, whirl, whirligig
pheasants - nest, nide, bouquet, brace, nye, plume, plump,
trip
- phoebes (flycatchers) -
outfield, swatting, zapper, zipper
pigeon - kit, band, dropping, loft, passel, school
plovers - congregation, wing, brace, deceit,
ponderance (killdeer - season)
- poorwills -
addiction
- ptarmigan -
congregation, covey, invisibleness
quail - bevy, covey, battery, drift, flush, rout, shake
rails - hill, rumor (Virginia - reel; Clapper
- applause, audience, commercial; Yellow - clique)
ravens - unkindness
- redpolls - gallup
robins - worm (see thrushes)
- roadrunners -
marathon, race
rooks - building, congregation
- rosy-finches -
bouquet
- sanderlings - grain
sandpipers - bind, contradiction, fling, hill,
time-step
- shrikes - abbatoir,
[abattoir is a slaughterhouse, from French], watch
skuas. - shishkab
- snipes - leash,
walk, whisper, winnowing, volley
Song Sparrows - choir, chorus
(see
sparrows)
soras - ache, expression, whinny
- sparrows
- crew, flutter, host, meinie, quarrel, ubiquity
(see
Chipping, Field,
Fox, Golden-crowned,
Harris's, House,
Song, Vesper)
spoonbills - bowl
- starlings -
chattering, constellation, filth, murmuration, scourge, vulgarity
storks - clatter, filth, muster, mustering, phalanx, swoop
- swallows - flight, gulp,
herd, kettle, richness, sord (Tree - stand; Bank - foreclosure)
swans - bevy, ballet, drift, regatta, school, game,
herd, team, wedge (flying in a "V")
- swifts - box, flock,
screaming frenzy, swoop
- tanagers - season
teals - spring, coil, dopping, knob, paddling
terns - ternery, U (Least Tern -
straightness; Common - committee)
thrushes - hermitage,
mutation
- titmice - banditry,
dissimulation
turkey - rafter, crop, dole, gang, posse, raffle
Vesper Sparrows -
congregation, liturgy (see
sparrows)
- vireos - call
vultures - cast, committee, meal, vortex, wake
warblers (chats, redstarts, waterthrushes, yellowthroats)
- bouquet, confusion, fall, wrench
waxwings - ear-full, museum
- whip-poor-wills -
invisibility, seek
wigeons - company
woodpeckers - descent, drumming, gatling
- wrens - chime,
flight, flock, herd
- yellowlegs -
incontinence
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Group
Names of Birds
(listed alphabetically by group name)
- Abbatoir - Shrikes
[abattoir is a slaughterhouse, from French]
Addiction - Poorwills
Ache - Sora
Aerie - Eagles, Hawks
Applause - Clapper Rails
Ascension - Larks
Asylum - Cuckoos, Loons
Audience - Clapper Rails
Badelynge - Ducks
Ballet - Swans
Band - Jays, Pigeon
Banditry - Titmice
Battery - Herons, Quail
Battling - Mallards
Bazaar - Murres, Guillemots, Owls
Bevy - Partridge, Quail, Swans
Bind - Sandpipers
Blight - House Sparrows
Bodelyng - Ducks
Boil - Hawks
Bouquet - Hummingbirds, Pheasants, Rosy-Fiinches, Warblers
Bowl - Spoonbills
Box - Swifts
Brace - Ducks, Merlin, Partridge, Plovers
Brood - Chickens (hens), Chicks, Kites
Building - Rooks
Bunch - Ducks
Cadge - Peregrines
Call - Vireos
Cast - Falcons, Hawks, Jays, Vultures
Castle - Kinglets
Cauldron - Crows
Charm - Finches, Goldfinches
Chattering - Budgerigars, Choughs, Larks, Starlings
Chime - Wrens
Choir - Song Sparrows
Chorus - Grouse, Song Sparrows
Clamor - Rooks
Clique - Green Kingfishers, Yellow Rails
Circlage - Martins
Clatter - Storks
Cloud - Blackbirds
Cluster - Blackbirds, Knots
Clutch - Chicks
Coil - Teal
Colony - Auks, Gulls, Penguins, Purple Martins, murrelets
Comercial - Clapper Rails
Committee - Common Terns, Vultures
Company - Finches, Parrots, Wigeons
Concentration - Kingfishers
Confusion - Warblers
Congregations - Egrets, Ibis, Plovers, Ptarmigans, Rooks,
Vesper Sparrow
Congress - Crows
Constellation - Starlings
Construction - Cranes
Contradiction - Sandpipers
Convocation - Eagles
Cooch - Cuckoos
Coronation - Kingbirds
Corral - Cowbirds
Covert - Coots
Covey - Quail, Partridges, Grouse, Ptarmigans
Crookedness - Crossbills
Crop - Turkeys
Court - Kingbirds, Kinglets
Crew - Sparrows
Crown - Belted Kingfishers
Crue - Field Sparrows
Cry - Loons
Curfew - Curlews
Daggle - Mallards
Dance - Cranes
Dash - Bitterns
Deceit - Lapwings, Plovers
Decoration - Buntings
Den - Fox Sparrow
Desert - Lapwings, Plovers
Descent - Woodpeckers
Development - House Finch
Dissimulation - Birds, Titmice
Dodge - Chicken Hawks
Dole - Doves, Turkeys
Coil - Teal
Doppling - Mallards, Phalaropes
Drift - Quail, Swans
Dropping - Pigeon
Drumming - Grouse, Woodpeckers
Dule - Doves
Dynasty - Kinglets
Ear-full - Waxwings
Echo - Mockingbirds
Exactness - Mockingbirds
Exaltation - Larks
Expression - Sora
Fall - Woodcocks, Warblers
Filth - Starlings, Storks
Fleet - Birds, Frigatebirds
Flock - Birds, Chickens, Ducks
Flight - Birds, Cormorants, Doves, Dunlins, Goshawks,
Kestrel, Martins, Swallows, Wrens
Fling - Dunlins, Knots, Sandpipers
Flotilla - Frigatebirds, Gulls
Flush - Ducks, Quail
Flutter - Sparrows
Foreclosure - Bank Swallows
Freeze - Bitterns
Gaggle - Geese
Gallup - Redpolls
Game - Curlews, Swans
Gang - Turkey
Gatling - Woodpeckers
Glare - Goshawk
Glaring - Owls
Glittering - Hummingbirds
Grain - Sanderlings
Gross - Goshawk, Grosbeaks
Grumbling - Grouse
Gullery - Gulls
Gulp - Cormorants, Martins, Swallows
Half - Goshawk
Happiness - Larks
Head - Curlews
Hedge - Herons
Herd - Cowbirds, Cranes, Curlews, Swans, Swallows, Wrens
Hermitage - Bluebirds, Thrushes
Heronry - Egrets
Hill - Rails, Sandpipers
Horde - Crows
Host - Sparrows
Hover - Kestrels
Hovering - Hummingbirds
Humiliation - House Sparrows
Illusion - Merlins
Incontinence - Yellowlegs
Invisibleness - Ptarmigans
Invisibility - Whip-poor-wills
Jar - Nuthatches
Jugging - Partridge
Kettle - Hawks, Kites, Nighthawks, Swallow
Kit - Pigeon
Knob - Teal
Knot - Hawks
Ladle - Dippers
Leash - Merlins, Grouse, Snipes
Litergy - Vesper Sparrow
Loft - Pigeon
Loomery - Auks,
Loons, Murrelets
Lute - Mallards
Marathon - Roadrunners
Meal - Vultures
Meinie - Sparrows
Merl - Blackbirds
Mewing - Catbirds
Mural - Buntings
Murder - Crows
Murmuration - Starlings
Museum - Waxwings
Muster - Crows, Peacocks, Storks
Mustering - Storks
Mutation - Bluebirds, Thrushes
Nest - Pheasants
Nide - Pheasants
Nye - Pheasants
Omniscience - Godwits
Ostentation - Peacocks
Outfield - Flycatchers, Phoebes
Paddling - Teal
Pandemonium - Parrots
Pantheon - Godwits
Parliament - Owls
Party - Jays
Parcel - Birds
Passel - Pigeon
Peep - Chicks
Phalanx - Storks
Pint - Bitterns
Piteousness - Doves
Pitying - Turtledoves
Plagiary - Mockingbirds
Plume - Pheasant
Plump - Moorhens, Wildfowl, Pheasant
Pod - Birds, Meadowlarks, Pelicans
Poll - Harris's Sparrow
Ponderance - Plovers
Pose - Herons
Posse - Turkey
Pouch - Pelicans
Prattle - Parrots
Prayer - Godwits
Pretense - Bitterns
Princedom - Kinglets
Psittacosis - Parrots
Quarrel - Sparrows
Race - Roadrunners
Raft - Auks, Ducks, Loons, Murrelets
Raffle - Turkeys
Rafter - Turkeys
Rattle - Belted Kingfishers
Reel - Virginia Rails
Regatta - Swans
Reign - Golden-crowned Sparrows
Relm - Kingfishers
Richness - Nightingales, Martins, Swallows
Ridicule - Mockingbirds
Rookery - Cormorants, Herons
Roost - Kites
Rout - Quail
Rumor - Rails
Rush - Goldfinches
Sacrifice - Buntings
Salon - Curlews
Scavenging - Gulls
Scattering - Herons
School - Pigeon
Scold - Jays
Scourge - Starlings
Screaming Frenzy - Swifts
Screech - Gulls
Season - Killdeer, Tanagers
Seat - Catbirds
Sedge - Cranes, Egrets, Herons
Seek - Whip-poor-wills
Shake - Quail
Shimmer - Hummingbirds
Shishkab - Jaegers, skuas
Siege - Bitterns,
Cranes, Egrets, Herons
Skein - Curlews, Fowl, Geese (flying)
Skewer - Egrets
Sleeze - Creepers
Slyness - Fox Sparrow
Soar - Kestrels
Sord - Mallards, Swallows
Spring - Teal
Springul - Larks
Spiral - Creepers
Spiraling - Hawks
Squabble - Gulls
Stampede - Cattle Egrets
Stand - Ibis, Flamingos, Phainopeplas, Tree Swallows
Stooping - Kites, Owls
Straightness - Least Terns
Strand - Phainopeplas
Stream - Hawks
String - Kites
Subdivision - House Sparrows
Sunning - Cormorants
Swatting - Flycatchers, Phoebes
Swim - Cormorants
Swirl - Phalaropes
Swoop - Cranes, Martins, Storks, Swifts
Tangle - Knots
Team - Ducks, Swans
Ternery - Terns
Tiding - Magpies
Time-step - Sandpipers
Trip - Dotterel, Dunlins, Pheasant
Tournament - Chipping Sparrows
Tower - Hawks
Treasury - Goldfinches
Trembling - Finches
Tune - Hummingbirds
Twirl - Phalaropes
Tyranny - Kingbirds
"U" - Terns
Ubiquity - Sparrows
Unkindness - Ravens
Vein - Goldfinches
Volery - Birds
Volley - Snipes
Vortex - Vultures
Vulgarity - Starlings
Wake - Vultures
Walk - Snipe
Warp - Crossbills
Warren - Partridge
Watch - Nightingales, Shrikes
Water Dance - Grebes, Loons
Wedge - Ibis, Geese, Swans (flying in a "V")
Whinny - Sora
Whirl - Phalaropes
Whirligig - Phalaropes
Whisper - Snipes
Wing - Plovers
Winnowing - Snipes
Wisdom - Owls
Wisp - Snipe
Worm - Robins
Wrench - Warblers
Zapper - Flycatchers, Phoebes
Zipper - Flycatchers, Phoebes
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