There is great diversity of collective nouns associated with animals, from a sleuth of bears to a murder of crows. The following is a list of the correct terms to describe groups of various types of animals.
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A Murder of Crows may refer to: •A Murder of Crows (literal) •A Murder of Crows (film), 1999 film •A Murder of Crows (album), 2003 studio album by Deadsoul Tribe
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The distress call brings other crows to their aid, as crows will defend unrelated crows. Crow couples are thought to mate for life. A group of crows is called a "murder." This name came about because a group of crows will sometimes kill a dying crow.
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As for why we call a group of crows a “murder,” the inspiration for the term is a mystery, lost since the 15th century.  As the Oxford English Dictionary suggests, ... 5 comments to Murder of Crows, etc. ... I have read that a Murder of Crows came about because crows have been known to kill a dying cow.
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Why do crows congregate in large numbers to sleep? ... such things as crows, robins, starlings, blackbirds, swallows, and herons. Most do this only outside of the breeding season. Some species, like starlings, also forage together in great numbers. Others, such as herons, disperse out from these gathering areas to...
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I have heard of a "murder of crows" too, but only from that book "An Exhaltation of Larks" that appeared awhile ago and I was never sure that all those terms included were really correct or in common use. I've always heard "a flock of crows" or a "flight of crows" or a "gang of (young) crows" and rarely "a coven of crows".
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