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rookery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | breeding ground |
| Has types | heronry |
Examples of rookery
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Egrets stand in a field near a rookery at 13th and Hoover streets on Wednesday.
From the kansas.com
And, anyway, no chance they could get state permits to wreck a rookery, right?
From the heraldtribune.com
The rocks are Los Islotes, home to a seal rookery protected by the government.
From the orlandosentinel.com
On Saturday, a major pelican rookery was awash in oil off Louisiana's coast.
From the abcnews.go.com
If the mangroves don't recover, more of the island will erode, imperiling the rookery.
From the sacbee.com
On the Rocky River, he stumbled upon a great blue heron rookery with nearly 50 nests.
From the charlotteobserver.com
They are also intensely social and the rookery below has at least 60 nests.
From the independent.co.uk
Johan Engels's set is a stylised cage serving as circus, boudoir, casino and rookery.
From the independent.co.uk
In addition to dozens of gators, the rookery showcases an impressive bird population.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- A breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)
- A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally birds. The term Rookery has also been used as a name for dense slum housing in nineteenth-century cities, and especially London.
- The Rookery Building is a historic landmark located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Completed by John Wellborn Root and Daniel Burnham of Burnham and Root in 1888, it is considered one of their masterpiece buildings. ...
- A rookery (also sometimes described as a stew) was the colloquial British English name historically given to a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes. ...
- A colony of breeding birds or other animals; A crowded tenement; a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city
- (rookeries) (RUK-ur-eez): places where seabirds breed
- Nesting place for rooks, birds that were related to the crow. David Copperfield's childhood home in Blunderstone was called the Rookery. Rookery was also used to denote an urban slum.
- A breeding place; often used to describe breeding places for seals and seabirds
- One of the larger rooms in Lower Cave. A large number of cave pearls are found in this area.
