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I specifically remember reading a book when I was in elementary school called "A Cache of Jewels" that was all about these various nouns.

https://www.amazon.ca/Cache-Jewels-Other-Collective-Nouns/dp...

EDIT - I just noticed a review for the book that is 1 Star "It should be more obvious this is a kids book". This listing comes with recommendations for "That's Not My Puppy" and "Bear Sleeps for Christmas". I wish people wouldn't leave bad reviews because THEY didn't interpret the product correctly.

Just a reminder the vast majority of collective nouns are essentially fake. Actual scientists have never heard most of them, let alone use them.

A murder of crows always makes me smile - english can be rather odd.

> english can be rather odd.

The more fanciful terms of venery (aka nouns of assembly) are very much deliberate contrivances.

> In the course of the 14th century, it became a courtly fashion to extend the vocabulary, and by the 15th century, the tendency had reached exaggerated and even satirical proportions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Terms_of_vener...