For some reason there are loads of crows in our back yard and of course in the front yard where we hang up the bird feeder. A “murder of crows” simply means a whole bunch of crows.
Which got me thinking; what other animals clustered together have their own “group name?” So I started looking, and found the following:
A clowder of cats
A pride of lions
A crash of rhinos
A troup of baboons
An army of caterpillers
A coalition of cheetahs
A quiver of cobras
A cast of crabs
a pod of dolphins
a business of ferrets
a tribe of goats
an array of hedgehogs
an exaltation of larks
a charm of hummingbirds
a parliment of owls
a gaze of raccoons
a shiver of sharks
a mustering of storks
a zeal of zebras
Of course, there are many more. Who knew? Now I wonder if we humans might sort ourselves into our own groups, such as:
a grumble of old men
a whine of babies
a crash of teens
a clatch of grandmothers
And the list could go on and on and on.