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 Englishlanguage for a number of crows.

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


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