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