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> a group of owls is called a ‘parliament’

never heard this before but I love it

Same. And it's much more descriptive than "a flock of owls" (the author's preference), given that owls don't flock.

Owls do flock[1].

I can't find anything defining "flock" as having more than a certain number of animals in it, so I would assume 2 owls would be a pair and 3+ owls would be a flock.

1. https://www.owlpages.com/owls/articles.php?a=2

And of course, two crows are neither a murder, nor a pair. They are a an attempted homicide.

CS Lewis coined the term, according to https://people.howstuffworks.com/shrewdness-apes-collective-...

Owls don't flock, so a collective term for them is pointless.

> Owls don't flock, so a collective term for them is pointless.

That just makes me enjoy the term even more.

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