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Chicken thighs are roosting in recipes from high-end wellness resorts for top spenders and in the grocery carts of average consumers who are increasingly steering toward poultry because of record-high beef prices in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Anders Hedenström, an evolutionary ecologist at Lund University in Sweden, says the inertia finding makes sense, especially when bats are roosting.

From National Geographic • Nov. 16, 2015

David Chiles, president of the Little River Audubon Society, said the fact that migratory flocks are roosting in the city rather than flying further south is tied to climate warming.

From Reuters • Feb. 19, 2013

Fish are roosting in the trees, all is topsy turvy, etc.

From Time • May 23, 2012

In the thickest hawthorns the blackbirds and lesser feathered creatures are roosting, preferring the hedgerow to the more open wood.

From The Amateur Poacher by Jefferies, Richard