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English can be a funny language sometimes... Maybe confusing is a better description here
Collective nouns for birds: Why we call it a murder of crows, murmuration of starlings and a conspiracy of ravens
"Variously idiosyncratic, intriguing and often unerringly apt in their descriptions of gatherings of birds, animals and people a damning of jurors, an incredulity of cuckolds — most of the collective nouns we use date back to the mid 15th century."