| Bird Orders, Families etc. | Group Names |
| Geese, Ducks & Swans | |
| Geese | A gaggle – on land or water |
| A skein – in flight | |
| A chevron, wedge – flying in a "V" | |
| Ducks | A safe – on land |
| A paddling, raft – on water | |
| A dopping – when diving | |
| A plump, team – in flight | |
| Wigeons | A company, knob, trip |
| Mallards | A sord, sute – in flight |
| Teal | A coil, diving, knob, spring |
| Swans | A ballet, bevy, drift, herd, regatta, whiteness |
| Grouse, Partridge and Wild Turkeys | |
| Partridge | A bevy, bew, covey, jugging, warren |
| Grouse | A chorus, covey, drumming (during mating season), grumbling, leash, lek, pack |
| Wild Turkeys | A gang, rafter |
| Loons | An asylum, cry, water dance |
| Grebes | A water dance |
| Cormorants | A flight, gulp, sunning, swim |
| Bitterns and Herons | |
| Bitterns | A dash, pretense, sedge, siege |
| Herons | A battery, hedge, pose, rookery, scattering |
| Egrets | A congregation, RSVP, skewer, wedge |
| Turkey Vultures | A cast, colony, committee, venue, wake |
| Eagles and Hawks | |
| Eagles | An aerie, congress, convocation, jubilee, soar, spread, tower |
| Harriers | A harassment, swarm |
| Hawks | A boil, kettle (riding a thermal), knot, spiralling, screw, stream |
| Goshawks | A flight, glare, gross |
| Rails and Coots | |
| Virginia Rails | A reel |
| Soras | An ache, expression, whinny |
| Coots | A commotion, cover, covert, fleet, raft, swarm |
| Moorhens | A plump |
| Plovers | |
| Plovers | A congregation, wing (in flight) |
| Killdeer | A season |
| Sandpipers, Snipe and Woodcock | |
| Yellowlegs | An incontinence |
| Sandpipers | A bind, contradiction, fling, hill, time-step |
| Snipe | A leash, volley, walk, wisp |
| Woodcock | A cord, fall, flight, plump, rush |
| Gulls & Terns | |
| Gulls | A colony, flotilla, pack, scavenging, screech, squabble |
| Terns | A ternery, "U" |
| Common Terns | A committee |
| Pigeons and Doves | |
| Pigeons | A band, dropping, flight, kit, loft, passel, plague, school |
| Doves | A dole, dule, flight |
| Owls | A bazaar, glaring, parliament, sagaciousness, silence (in flight) stare, stooping, wisdom |
| Barn Owls | A stable |
| Barred Owls | A jail, a prohibition |
| Snowy Owls | A blizzard |
| Nightjars – Nighthawks & Whip-poor-wills | |
| Nighthawks | A kettle |
| Whip-poor-wills | An invisibility, seek |
| Swifts and Hummingbirds | |
| Swifts | A box, drift, screaming frenzy, swoop |
| Hummingbirds | A bouquet, charm, hover, glittering, shimmer, tune |
| Kingfishers | A clique, concentration, crown, rattle, realm |
| Woodpeckers | |
| Woodpeckers | A descent, descension, drumming, fall, gatling |
| Sapsuckers | A slurp |
| Flickers | A guttering, menorah, Peterson |
| Pileated Woodpeckers | A crown |
| Falcons | |
| Kestrels | A flight, hover, soar |
| Merlins | A brace, leash, illusion |
| Falcons | A bazaar, cadge, cast |
| Perching Birds | |
| Flycatchers | |
| Flycatchers | An outfield, swatting, zapper, zipper |
| Pewees | A dribble, squirt |
| Kingbirds | A coronation, court, tyranny |
| Shrikes | An abattoir, watch |
| Vireos | |
| Vireos | A call |
| Red-eyed Vireos | A hangover |
| Jays and Crows | |
| Jays | A band, cast, party, scold |
| Crows | A cauldron, caucus, congress, cowardice, horde, hover, mob, murder, muster, parcel, storytelling |
| Ravens | A bazaar, congress, conspiracy, constable, rant, scatter, unkindness |
| Larks | An ascension, chattering, exaltation, happiness, spring, springful |
| Swallows and Martins | |
| Purple Martins | A colony, richness |
| Swallows | A flight, gulp, herd, kettle, richness, swoop |
| Tree Swallows | A stand |
| Bank Swallows | A foreclosure |
| Barn Swallows | A kettle |
| Chickadees | A banditry, dissimulation |
| Nuthatches | A jar |
| Creepers | A sleeze, spiral |
| Wrens | A chime, herd |
| Kinglets | A castle, court, dynasty, princedom |
| Thrushes | |
| Thrushes | A mutation |
| Robins | A worm |
| Mockingbirds and Thrashers | |
| Catbirds | A mewing, seat |
| Mockingbirds | An echo, exactness, impression,plagiary, precision, ridicule |
| Starlings | A chattering, cloud, clutter, congregation, constellation, filth, murmuration, scourge, vulgarity |
| Waxwings | An ear-full, museum |
| Snow Buntings | A drift |
| Warblers | |
| Ovenbirds | A stew |
| Warblers | A bouquet, confusion, fall, wrench |
| Black-and-white Warblers | A dichotomy, distinction, integration |
| Mourning Warblers | A wake |
| Magnolia Warblers | A corsage |
| Yellow Warblers | A stream, sweetness, trepidation |
| Palm Warblers | A reading |
| Pine Warblers | A cone |
| New World Sparrows | |
| Towhees | A tangle, teapot |
| Sparrows, Juncoes | A crew, flutter, host, meinie, quarrel, tribe, ubiquity |
| American Tree Sparrows | A grove |
| Chipping Sparrows | A tournament |
| Field Sparrows | A crue |
| Vesper Sparrows | A congregation, liturgy |
| Fox Sparrows | A den, flock, slyness |
| Song Sparrows | A choir, chorus |
| Cardinals and Grosbeaks | |
| Tanagers | A season |
| Cardinals | A college, conclave, deck, radiance, Vatican |
| Grosbeaks (ex.Rose-breasted) | A gross |
| Buntings | A decoration, mural, sacrifice |
| Blackbirds | |
| Bobolinks | A chain |
| Blackbirds | A cloud, cluster, grind, merl |
| Cowbirds | A corral, herd |
| Orioles | A pitch, split |
| Finches | |
| Finches | A charm, company, trembling, trimming |
| House Finches | A development |
| Crossbills | A crookedness, warp |
| Redpolls | A gallup |
| Goldfinches | A 007, charm, chattering, drum, glister, rush, treasury, troubling, vein |
| Grosbeaks (ex. Pine, Evening) | A gross |
| Old World Sparrows | |
| House Sparrows | A blight, humiliation, subdivision |
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| Other | |
| Flamingos | A flamboyance |
| Peacocks | An ostentation |
| Otters | A romp |
| Porcupines | A prickle |
| Raccoons | A mask |
| Skunks | A stench |