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The general collective noun for birds is a flock of birds.

Many individual species of birds also have their own collective nouns, for example:

  • a brace of grouse
  • a brood of chickens
  • a brood of hens
  • a charm of finches
  • a charm of goldfinches
  • a clutch of chicks
  • a colony of gulls
  • a colony of penguins
  • a congregation of magpies
  • a congregation of plovers
  • a convocation of eagles
  • a cote of doves
  • a covey of partridges
  • a drift of swans
  • an exaltation of larks
  • a flight of birds
  • a flight of swallows
  • a gaggle of geese
  • a host of sparrows
  • a host of sparrows
  • a knob of pochard
  • a murder of crows
  • a murmuration of starlings
  • an ostentation of peacocks
  • a paddling of ducks
  • a parliament of owls
  • a plump of ducks
  • a raft of ducks
  • a sedge of cranes
  • a siege of cranes
  • a skein of geese
  • a stand of flamingos
  • a watch of nightingales
  • a wedge of geese
  • a wedge of swans
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Flock..? If you look it up on Wikipedia, there's a whole page for it. But different birds are different words , eg. A parliament of owls, a murder of crows, and etc.

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The collective noun for a group of birds flying together is a flock.

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