a bevy of birds
A group of animals, especially quail, roe deer or other game.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- ladies, quail, roe deer, swans
- Also spelled
- Beuy (1486)
Subject · Animals → Birds
Birds
A group of birds can be called: bevy · brace · chevron · congregation · covey · dissimulation · drift · flight · flock · muster · plump · roost · skein · waddle · wedge
- Collective nouns
- 15
- Category
- Animals
- Subcategory
- Birds
- High confidence
- 15
- Book of St Albans
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Collective nouns for birds
a brace of birds
A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- dogs, ducks, greyhounds, dryads, raccoons
a chevron of birds
A group of birds in flight, when flying in a V formation, as in cranes, ducks, geese, gulls and pelicans.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- cranes, ducks, geese, gulls, pelicans
a congregation of birds
A flock of birds.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- alligators, crocodiles, people, plovers
- Also spelled
- Congregacōn (1486)
a covey of birds
A brood or family of partridges (family ), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe ) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus ). A group of other birds.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- grouse, partridges, ptarmigans
- Also spelled
- Couy (1486)
a dissimulation of birds
Listed in the Book of Saint Albans (1486) as “a Dyssymulacōn of byrdes”.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source
- Also spelled
- Dyssymulacōn (1486)
a drift of birds
A group of birds moving together.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- bees, cattle, fishers, goats, horses, pigs, sheep
- Also spelled
- Dryfte (1486)
a flight of birds
A group of birds, especially doves (pigeons), goshawks or swallows.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- angels, butterflies, doves, goshawks, hawks, herons, pigeons, stairs, swallows, cormorants
- Also spelled
- Flyght (1486), Flyghte (1486)
a flock of birds
A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited, wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- albatrosses, bats, camels, goats, guinea fowl, hawks, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese +5 more
- Also spelled
- Flocke (1486)
a muster of birds
A group of peafowl, storks or sometimes other birds.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- peafowl, storks
- Also spelled
- Mustre (1486)
a plump of birds
A group of ducks or geese migrating, or sometimes other groups of birds.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- ducks, geese
a roost of birds
A group of birds roosting together.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- partridges
a skein of birds
A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- ducks, geese
a waddle of birds
A group of birds, such as ducks and penguins, when walking.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- ducks, penguins
a wedge of birds
A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wiktionary-attested
- Also used for
- geese, swans
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