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In 2017 pigeons were roosting inside its Saban Building — the former 1939 May Co. building — while it was undergoing a major renovation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2021

By telegraph, they wired news of the migration of the great flocks and the locations where colonies were roosting.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2017

The boy may have contracted the virus from fruit bats that were roosting in trees near Meliandou, a village in southern Guinea.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2015

Roaches climbed the walls and pigeons were roosting in a makeshift exhaust vent that snaked along the wall.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2011

Millions of birds were roosting in the trees—fat gray-and-white pigeons, except they didn’t coo like regular pigeons.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan