Mammals and marsupials
A conspiracy of ring-tailed lemurs. (Photo: Bas Czerwinski/AFP/Getty Images)- Apes: a shrewdness
- Badgers: a cete
- Bats: a cauldron
- Bears: a sloth or sleuth
- Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
- Cats: a clowder, pounce or glaring; for kittens: a kindle, litter or intrigue
- Dogs: a litter (puppies), pack (wild) or cowardice (curs)
- Donkeys: a pace
- Elephants: a parade
- Elk: a gang
- Ferrets: a business
- Fox: a leash, skulk or earth
- Giraffes: a tower
- Goats: a tribe or trip
- Gorillas: a band
- Hippopotamuses: a bloat or thunder
- Hyenas: a cackle
- Jaguars: a shadow
- Kangaroos: a troop or mob
- Lemurs: a conspiracy
- Leopards: a leap
- Lions: a pride or sawt
- Martens: a richness
- Moles: a labor
- Monkeys: a troop or barrel
- Mules: a pack, span or barren
- Otters: a romp
- Pigs: a drift, drove, sounder, team or passel
- Porcupines: a prickle
- Porpoises: a pod, school, herd or turmoil
- Rabbits: a colony, warren, nest, down, husk or herd (domestic only)
- Rhinoceroses: a crash
- Squirrels: a dray or scurry
- Tigers: an ambush or streak
- Whales: a pod, gam or herd
- Wolves: a pack, rout or route (when in movement)
Birds
An ostentation of Indian peacocks. (Photo: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)
- Bitterns: a sedge
- Buzzards: a wake
- Bobolinks: a chain
- Coots: a cover
- Cormorants: a gulp
- Crows: a murder or horde
- Dotterel: a trip
- Doves: a dule or pitying (specific to turtle doves)
- Ducks: a brace, team, flock (in flight), raft (on water), paddling or badling
- Eagles: a convocation
- Finches: a charm
- Flamingos: a stand
- Geese: a flock, gaggle (on the ground) or skein (in flight)
- Grouse: a pack (in late season)
- Hawks: a cast, kettle (in flight) or boil (two or more spiraling in air)
- Herons: a sedge or siege
- Jays: a party or scold
- Lapwings: a deceit
- Larks: an exaltation
- Mallards: a sord (in flight) or brace
- Magpies: a tiding, gulp, murder or charm
- Nightingales: a watch
- Owls: a parliament
- Parrots: a pandemonium or company
- Partridge: a covey
- Peafowl: an ostentation or muster
- Penguins: a colony, muster, parcel or rookery
- Pheasant: a nest, nide (a brood), nye or bouquet
- Plovers: a congregation or wing (in flight)
- Ptarmigans: a covey
- Rooks: a building
- Quail: a bevy or covey
- Ravens: an unkindness
- Snipe: a walk or wisp
- Sparrows: a host
- Starlings: a murmuration
- Storks: a mustering
- Swans: a bevy, game or wedge (in flight)
- Teal: a spring
- Turkeys: a rafter or gang
- Woodcocks: a fall
- Woodpeckers: a descent
Reptiles and amphibians
A maelstrom of crocodile salamanders. (Photo: Tanes Ngamsom/Shutterstock)
- Cobras: a quiver
- Crocodiles: a bask
- Frogs: an army
- Toads: a knot
- Turtles: a bale or nest
- Salamanders: a maelstrom
- Snakes, vipers: a nest
Fish
A shiver of hammerhead sharks. (Photo: Janos Rautonen/Shutterstock)
- Fish in general: a draft, nest, run, school or shoal
- Herring: an army
- Sharks: a shiver
- Trout: a hover
Invertebrates
A fluther of golden jellyfish. (Photo: Ethan Daniels/Shutterstock)
- Bees: a grist, hive or swarm
- Caterpillars: an army
- Clams: a bed
- Crabs: a consortium
- Cockroaches: an intrusion
- Flies: a business
- Grasshoppers: a cloud
- Jellyfish: a bloom, fluther or smack
- Lobsters: a risk
- Oysters: a bed
- Snails: a hood
- Squid: an audience
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