A chattering of starlings, a murder of crows, a kindle of kittens, here are our favourite collective nouns for the creatures we’ve spotted out and about:

An ARMY of ants

A GRIST of bees

A FLIGHT of butterflies

A DESTRUCTION of cats

An ARMY of caterpillars

A PEEP of chickens

A MURDER of crows

A DROVE of donkeys

CONVOCATION of eagles

A BUSINESS of ferrets

A SKULK of foxes

A GAGGLE of geese

A CLOUD of grasshoppers

A COLONY of gulls

A PRICKLE of hedgehogs

A SIEGE of herons

A SMUCK of jellyfish

A KINDLE of kittens

A LEAP of leopards

A TIDING of magpies

A LABOUR of moles

A BED of mussels

A PARLIAMENT of owls

PANDEMONIUM of parrots

A FLIGHT of pigeons

A COLONY of rabbits

An UNKINDNESS of ravens

A NURSERY of raccoons

A CLAMOUR of rooks

A QUARREL of sparrows

A CLUSTER of spiders

A DRAY of squirrels

A CHATTERING of starlings

A FLIGHT of swallows

A FLOCK of swifts






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