Collective Nouns

Collective nouns are nouns that refer to a group of something in a specific manner. Often, collective nouns are used to refer to groups of animals.

Consider the following sentences:

Look at the gaggle of geese.

There used to be herds of wild buffalo on the prairie.

A bevy of swans is swimming in the pond.

A colony of ants live in the anthill.

In the above examples, gaggle, herds, bevy, and colony are collective nouns.