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For decades the monarchs have roosted on the Morro Bay Golf Course, owned by San Luis Obispo Parks and Recreation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Up to 75 birds have roosted there, he said, “but they don’t come back unless we’re there to do a playback.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2019

Mine too, thy lofty Justice Hall, with its one chair of authority, high-backed and wickered, once the terror of luckless poacher, or self-forgetful maiden—so common since, that bats have roosted in it.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles