rookeries
- plural of rookery.
Example Sentences
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The females, they say, may make lots of connections at the rookeries where they congregate to give birth.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2023
Point La Jolla, known as one of California’s prime sea lion rookeries, will no longer be accessible to the public after a unanimous vote by the San Diego City Council.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
The Jet Skis either deliberately or accidentally can go up too close to the rookeries.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2023
The bulk of these activities take place in rookeries that are often inaccessible to the flightless or boatless.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their young in rookeries.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
