Collective Terms for Animals

This section is a pretty comprehensive list of Collective Terms for Animals. Many will be familiar but others will be unheard of, deriving from 15th century witticisms or literary imagination, and some are simply archaic or erroneous. There are also some terms for pairs of animals and groups of three animals.


The list has been arranged alphabetically.


Here is the list of Collective Terms for Groups of Animals beginning with O.

animal	group or collective term	notes
otters	bevy
	family	surely not a specific collective
owls	parliament
	stare
oxen	drove	when driven in a group
	herd
	meinie
	team (in harness)
	yoke (in harness)
oxbirds	fling
oysters	bed	strictly, a place where they grow together
	hive