How do you call 'a flock of Crows?' A murder.
Many birds live alone, but crows live in a group called a murder.
Most people would call it a Flock of Crows. One could think of a murder of Crows to be the "poetic term" . The word for this grouping appears in the title of the short story "Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a well-known short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
This is all things to the "collective noun". In fact a murder is not the only collective noun for a grouping of crows.
A horde, hover, muster, parcel are also listed as collective nouns for Crows. The most famous of them all is "a murder.
A collective noun is a noun that is singular in formal shape but denotes a group of referents. These are also called group nouns. Sometimes, usually in grammatical discussions, collective noun is also used to refer to plural-only words such as people or cattle.
It gets crazy when you start to look at all of the A collective nouns. Here are just a short list!
A "convocation" of Eagles
A "charm" of hummingbirds.
A "skulk" of foxes.
A "chattering" of starlings.
A "mustering" of storks.
An "unkindness" of ravens.
A "seige" of herons.
A "leap" of leopards.
A "murder" of crows.
A "sloth" of bears.
Source :The crow society
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