Group-names for a selection of birds
- Covey of partridges
- Hide of pheasants
- Wisp of snipe
- Bevy of quails
- Flight or doyes of swallows
- Muster of peacocks
- Siege of herons
- Building of rooks
- Brood of grouse
- Plump of wildfowl
- Stand of plovers
- Cast of hawks
- Watch of nightingales
- Clattering of choughs
- Flock of geese
source: Alexander Robert Forbes, Gaelic Names of Beasts, 1905, p 236
I always like to hear/read the different collective names for animals, they're never samey.