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 R.

animal	group or collective term	notes
rabbits	colony
	flick
	kindle
	nest
	warren	strictly, where they live: possibly not a collective
racehorses	string
racoons	nursery
rainbow fish	party	possibly invented
ravens	aerie
	unkindness
redwing	crowd
rhinoceros	crash
	herd
	stubbornness	fanciful
roach	shoal
roes	bevy
rooks	building
	clamour
	congregation
	parliament
	shoal
	wing
ruffs	hill