What is a group a Crows called a murder?

Answer 1

A "murder" of crows is based on the persistent but fallacious folk tale that crows form tribunals to judge and punish the bad behavior of a member of the flock. If the verdict goes against the defendant, that bird is killed (murdered) by the flock. The basis in fact is probably that occasionally crows will kill a dying crow who doesn't belong in their territory or much more commonly feed on carcasses of dead crows. Also, both crows and ravens are associated with battlefields, medieval hospitals, execution sites and cemeteries (because they scavenged on human remains). In England, a tombstone is sometimes called a ravenstone.

Answer 2

The phrase, according to James Lipton* in his An Exaltation of Larks, dates from 1450 in the form a mursher of crowys. It was a murther of crowes by 1476. Whether it arose because murdering was thought to be a characteristic of crows or simply as a negative comment upon flocks of crows is not known. The mursher form is problematic, however, as we must wonder if it was not intended as murder but was mistakenly interpreted as such. We could find no instances of murder with a similar spelling.

Answer 3

In literary and fanciful usage, the collective noun for a group of crows is a "murder." Groups of ravens have historically been called an "unkindness." However, in practice, most people use the more generic term flock, and sometimes more macabre terms such as "swarm" or "horde."

The poetic term for a bunch of crows is a "murder." No scientist calls them that, only poets. Scientists would call it a flock.

Answer 4

A flock of crows. Every group of animals has got it's name. Here r some:

Herd is used of a number of animals, especially cattle, herded by people; or of wild animals such as antelope, elephants, and zebras; or of whales and seals.

Gang refers to a herd, especially of buffalo or elk

sloth, a company of bears

Pack is applicable to any body of animals, especially wolves, or of birds, especially grouse, and to a body of hounds trained to hunt as a unit. It also refers disparagingly to a band or group of people.

gaggle, a flock of geese

pod, a small herd of seals or whales;

These were the only ones I could think of!

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Answer 5

It is a medieval term and the origin is not known. It could come from the fact that crows eat dead animals, and sometimes don't wait until they are dead to start eating.

Answer 6

It is just an old expression.

For more weird ones try this site http://www.treasureranch.com/treasure/rzuinfofiles/terms.html

They cover army of frogs, congregation of alligators, and shrewdness of apes. They have pages of group names, each weirder than the other.

Answer 7

yes it is called a murder.

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