We all know about murders of crows -- that is, what you call it when there's a lot of crows. These terms are called collective nouns, and there are some out there even I hadn't heard:
shrewdness of apes
flange of baboons
nuisance of cats (WHAT?)
bury of conies
charm of finches
leash of greyhounds
dray of squirrels
. . . and a sneak of weasels
Taken from this list here. Even bigger and odder list here.
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