Animal Group Names in English

Animal Group Names in English




  • Oysters: a bed
  • Snails: a hood
  • Squid: an audience
  • Apes: a shrewdness
  • Badgers: a cete
  • Otters: a romp
  • Rhinoceroses: a crash
  • Squirrels: a dray or scurry
  • Tigers: an ambush or streak
  • Bats: a cauldron
  • Bears: a sloth or sleuth
  • Bitterns: a sedge
  • Buzzards: a wake
  • Bobolinks: a chain
  • Coots: a cover



  • Woodcocks: a fall
  • Woodpeckers: a descent
  • Cobras: a quiver
  • Crocodiles: a bask
  • Frogs: an army
  • Toads: a knot
  • Turtles: a bale or nest
  • Salamanders: a maelstrom
  • Snakes: a nest
  • Rooks: a building
  • Quail: a bevy or covey
  • Mallards: a sord or brace
  • Magpies: a tiding, gulp
  • Nightingales: a watch
  • Owls: a parliament
  • Crabs: a consortium
  • Herring: an army
  • Sharks: a shiver
  • Trout: a hover
  • Bees: a grist, hive or swarm
  • Caterpillars: an army
  • Clams: a bed
  • Cockroaches: an intrusion
  • Flies: a business
  • Grasshoppers: a cloud
  • Lions: a pride or sawt