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holding a dead crow, standing near a dead hawk, or doing both at once.
It's not clear whether the volunteer or the hawk is holding the dead crow in the last case.
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It seems like a squad of crows could do some real damage to a person. A group of crows is called a murder, not that it matters, but it fits the theme of the story a bit.
The big list of collective nouns for animals is just a made up thing, sort of like a book of poetry. There are a small number of ye olde Englishe words for some types of groups (like school of fish) and some of the fanciful names from the book have moved into common usage, but the dramatically expanded version is not known to have ever been actually used some info here https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources…