heronry
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heronries
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The nests were revealed as part of the British Trust for Ornithology's annual heronry census.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2022
Carl Hawke, nature conservation adviser at the National Trust, said the larger heronry was "great news to discover".
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2022
During the nesting season, which covers the months of April, May and June, I am through this heronry in a small canoe almost every day, and often twice a day.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
Once, when drifting over the beaver pond through the delicate witchery of the moonlight, I heard five or six of the great birds croaking excitedly at the heronry, which they had deserted weeks before.
From Wood Folk at School by William Joseph Long
We took seven birds that rose from the heronry of Barone.
From The Thirsty Sword by Robert Leighton
Why are there no heronries in the English public parks?
From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.
Were it not for the fact that herons nest like rooks, and that heronries are valued appurtenances in parks, they would soon become scarce.
From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies
There were at that time heronries, as at a later period there were pheasantries.
From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
On the other hand, though the heron is the far more powerful bird of the two, heronries have likewise been scattered, and their trees appropriated, by rooks, probably in overwhelming numbers.
From Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo
At breeding time these birds assemble in very large companies, and their nesting-places are called heronries or rookeries.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach
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