2006-11-19 11:45:58 · 6 answers · asked by Sarah 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
It's called a murder.
2006-11-19 11:58:51 · answer #1 · answered by Demon Doll 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I've been told that the proper word to indicate a group of crows is "murder." There is even a new straight-to-video Cuba Gooding Jr. movie titled "A Murder of Crows." However, I've looked in several dictionaries and never found "flock of crows" as a definition for the word, whereas under the similarly used word "pride" one definition given is usually "a group of lions." What gives? And, anyway, how did "murder" come to mean "flock of crows"?
So all in all, a murder, or a flock...but technically murder...
I believe it is a murder of crows, because crows eat meat, and also attack other birds and run them into spikes on trees and branches. In a way, murdered smaller birds!
2006-11-19 20:01:09 · answer #2 · answered by Jshoffyman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horde, hover, murder, muster, parcel, parliament, and storytelling.
2006-11-19 20:00:39 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Noisey crapping birds!
2006-11-19 19:49:08 · answer #4 · answered by Dotr 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
a murder
2006-11-19 19:48:37 · answer #5 · answered by Phantom 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a murder
2006-11-19 19:47:41 · answer #6 · answered by icynici 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋