What do you call a group of Birds?
| Birds in general | A flight (in the air), flock (on the ground), volary, brace (generally for gamebirds or waterfowl, referring to a pair or couple killed by a hunter) |
| Bitterns | A sedge |
| Buzzards | A wake |
| Bobolinks | A chain |
| Chicks | A brood; clutch (of manyspecies) |
| Coots | A cover |
| Cormorants | A gulp |
| Cranes | A sedge |
| Crows | A murder, horde |
| Dotterel | A trip |
| Doves | A dule, pitying (specific to turtle doves) |
| Ducks | A brace, flock (in flight), raft (on water) team, paddling (on water), badling |
| Eagles | A convocation |
| Finches | A charm |
| Flamingos | A stand |
| Geese | A flock, gaggle (on the ground), skein (in flight) |
| Grouse | A pack (in late season) |
| Gulls | A colony |
| Hawks | A cast, kettle (flying in large numbers), boil(two or more spiraling in flight) |
| Herons | A sedge, a siege |
| Jays | A party, scold |
| Lapwings | A deceit |
| Larks | An exaltation |
| Mallards | A sord (in flight), brace |
| Magpies | A tiding, gulp, murder, charm |
| Martens | A richness |
| Nightingales | A watch |
| Owls | A parliament |
| Parrots | A company |
| Partridge | A covey |
| Peacocks | A muster, an ostentation |
| Penguins | A colony |
| Pheasant | A nest, nide (a brood), nye, bouquet |
| Plovers | A congregation, wing (in flight) |
| Ptarmigans | A covey |
| Rooks | A building |
| Quail | A bevy, covey |
| Ravens | An unkindness |
| Snipe | A walk, a wisp |
| Sparrows | A host |
| Starlings | A murmuration |
| Storks | A mustering |
| Swallows | A flight |
| Swans | A bevy, wedge (in flight) |
| Teal | A spring |
| Turkeys | A rafter, gang |
| Widgeons | A company |
| Woodcocks | A fall |
| Woodpeckers | A descent |
—USGS Northern Praire Wildlife Research Center
