My husband tells me it’s illegal in the US to take pictures of crows… This sounds ridiculous to me. A GOOGLE search has been useless, although I did learn that filming a GROUP of crows could definitely get me arrested. Maybe it is only about the play on words associated with the collective noun??
Can anyone help me with this?? 
Thanks!
Certainly not illegal to photograph either an individual crow, or a group of them. And the joke about “murder of crows” doesn’t work either, since it’s not illegal to photograph a murder per se.
Since I have a strong suspicion that the OP is just kidding around rather than looking for a serious answer, let’s move this over to MPSIMS.
Colibri
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Because you’ll be “shooting” them with your camera. 
ETA: I think he’s pulling your leg, or is wildly misinformed.
Just don’t use a flash; it distracts them from their counting.
It’s illegal to own native crows, not to take pictures of them.
Right. It IS illegal to shoot crows ( i.e. with a gun ) without a permit - they are protected under the Migratory Bird Act. But it is not illegal to “shoot” crows ;).
Don’t get me started on flocks of seagulls.
It is perfectly legal to shoot crows here in Oregon, there is even a season, from Oct 1st to Jan 31st.
You need a hunting license but no game bird stamp. Shotgun, archery or falcon only, no rifles.
And you can shoot as many as you want, there is no bag limit. You can murder a murder of them. Reported to taste like duck.
Link to PDF of regulations, page 16.
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/hunting/upland_bird/docs/oregon_game_bird_regs.pdf
Does taking a picture of two crows count as one crime or two? Does it become a felony if it’s 10 or more in one picture?
A hunting license is a permit :). The MBTA doesn’t automatically make it illegal to kill listed birds at any time. It just makes it illegal to kill them in an unregulated fashion and regulations will vary depending on the species. Crows are in no danger of extinction and can actually be agricultural pests, so I’m not surprised by Oregon’s regulations. Moreover landowners can apply for depredation permits to shoot them out of season.
But you can’t just let fly at them at any time in the U.S. for no reason at all without potentially being subject to fines.
So long as the crow is in a public space and the crow would not have a reasonable expectation of privacy, it would be OK to photograph them.
If they were say, in a changing room at the mall, the mall cops get real sore about a person trying to take photos of strange crows in there.
While the pun in the OP was ok, it was nothing to crow about.
Nit pick.
They’re actually colonies of seagulls.
Not unless fowl play is suspected.
Don’t get your feathers in a ruffle.
Your husband must have been ravin’
It is, however. illegal to shoot crowds.
It’s illegal to shoot them in IRan.
Let’s leave the law out of this, and work on whether it is a good idea:
Crows will remember you, will teach other crows who you are, and will go on the attack. They are smart and evil. Don’t mess with them.
Where on earth did you find this information, and why would you believe it to be true? Do you know of any other non-human animals that it is illegal to film? Is the Animal Planet network flouting the law with its mere existence?