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Avian collective nouns

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Subject: Avian collective nouns
From: Ronald Orenstein <>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:54:25 -0400
At 06:42 AM 10/08/00 +1000, Syd Curtis wrote:
I wondered whether there is an accepted collective noun in the English language for a number of crows.

Strangely enough, it is "murder", as in "A murder of crows". Your librarian is correct. There is actually a compilation of these words in print: "An Exaltation of Larks" by James Lipton (Penguin Books).



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