A group of birds in general is called a congregation, flight, flock, volery, or volley. Below is a list specific to types of birds.
Bird |
Group Name |
Bitterns |
Siege or sedge |
Budgerigars |
Chatter |
Chickens |
Flock, run, brood, or clutch |
Coots |
Fleet or pod |
Cormorants |
Flight |
Bird |
Group Name |
Cranes |
Herd or siege |
Crows |
Murder, clan, or hover |
Curlews |
Herd |
Doves |
Flight, flock, or dole |
Ducks |
Paddling, bed, brace, flock, flight, or raft |
Eagles |
Convocation |
Geese |
Gaggle or plump (on water), flock (on land), skein (in flight), or covert |
Goldfinches |
Charm, chattering, chirp, or drum |
Grouses |
Pack or brood |
Gulls |
Colony |
Hawks |
Cast |
Hens |
Brood or flock |
Herons |
Siege, sege, scattering, or sedge |
Jays |
Band |
Larks |
Exaltation, flight, or ascension |
Magpies |
Tiding or tittering |
Mallards |
Flush, sord, or sute |
Nightingales |
Watch |
Partridges |
Covey |
Peacocks |
Muster, ostentation, or pride |
Penguins |
Colony |
Pheasants |
Nye, brood, or nide |
Pigeons |
Flock or flight |
Plovers |
Stand, congregation, flock, or flight |
Quails |
Covey or bevy |
Sparrows |
Host |
Starlings |
Chattering or murmuration |
Storks |
Mustering |
Swallows |
Flight |
Swans |
Herd, team, bank, wedge, or bevy |
Teals |
Spring |
Turkeys |
Rafter |
Turtle doves |
Dule |
Woodpeckers |
Descent |
Wrens |
Herd |