birds
a dissimulation of birds
a flock of birds
a peep of chickens
a brood of chicks
a clutch of chicks
a murder of crows
a dule of doves
a brace of ducks
a paddling of ducks
a charm of finches
a gaggle of geese
a cast of hawks
a siege of herons
a deceit of lapwings
an exhaltation of larks
a tiding of magpies
a watch of nightingales
a pride of ostriches
a parliament of owls
 
 
fishy things
a shoal of bass
a bed of clams
a school of fish
a smack of jellyfish
 
 
livestock
a drove of cattle
a herd of cows
a rag of colts
a pace of donkeys
a trip of goats
a drift of hogs
a harras of horses
 
 
other mammals
a shrewdness of apes
a sloth of bears
  (is it a bear of sloths then?)
a singular of boars
a herd of elephants
a gang of elk
a troop of kangaroos
or a mob of kangaroos
a leap of leopards
a pride of lions
a crash of rhinoceroses
a bevy of roebucks
 
 
other things
a colony of ants
a hive of bees
an army of caterpillars
a plague of locusts
 
 

a covey of partridges
a muster of peacocks
an ostentation of peacocks
a bouquet of pheasants
a congregation of plovers
a bevy of quail
an unkindness of ravens
a building of rooks
a squabble of seagulls
a walk of snipe
a host of sparrows
a murmuration of starlings
a mustering of storks
a flight of swallows
a spring of teal
a rafter of turkeys
a pitying of turtledoves
a fall of woodcocks
a descent of woodpeckers
 
 
 
a pod of seals
a hover of trout
a gam of whales
a pod/school/herd of whales
 
 
 
a span of mules
a team of oxen
a litter of pigs
a string of ponies
a flock of sheep
a drift of swine
a sounder of swine
 
 
 
a route of wolves
an ambush of tigers
a sett of badgers
a clouder of cats
a business of ferrets
a skulk of foxes
a down of hares
a kindle of kittens
a labour of moles
a husk of jack rabbits
a dray of squirrels
a gam of weasels
 
 
 
a knot of toads
a bale of turtles
a nest of vipers
a clutch of eggs