How to Use rookery in a Sentence

rookery

noun
  • In the rookery, jet-black newborn pups wriggled close to their mothers.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Wisconsin's side is more serene and wooded, home to a large lake, a heron rookery, and a wildlife trail.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Before the fires are set, biologists and fire staff will make sure no bird rookeries will be harmed.
    — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 May 2018
  • The rookery was mainly populated by adults, with a few youngsters in the mix.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • The bird discovered a tasty treat near a rookery at the Ballard Locks.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
  • On one slope was an elephant seal rookery, with 500-pound juveniles lolling on the rocks.
    — Bonnie Tsui, New York Times, 19 May 2016
  • La Jolla protects pups left on the rookery while mothers forage.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The park also serves as a springtime rookery for a local population of great blue herons.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Cathedral Pines is also home to a great blue heron rookery, where the 4-foot-tall birds roost in May. The forest service asks visitors to stay at least 300 feet away from the nesting area to avoid disturbing them.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Herons and egrets, which have rookeries and a strong presence in Armand Bayou, were two of those species.
    — Jennifer Bolton and Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Their parents sometimes died while flying over oceans or swamps (which preserve delicate bones), but the young stayed put in their rookeries.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • In addition, the park service notes that northern elephant seals start convening at their rookery sites in late fall.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • This is the only rookery of its kind in the world that’s easily accessible and free to the public every day of the year.
    — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2023
  • The rookery is free and open every day with a wheelchair-accessible boardwalk for viewing the seals from a safe distance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Virtually all the sea lions seen in the rivers and bays of the West Coast are males; most females stay near the rookeries.
    — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Opponents of the project see the new Calusa rookery plan as falling short of creating a true sanctuary for rare birds.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Sometimes, the birds select unique urban locales for their rookeries, such as Thames Street Park.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The great blue herons nesting in their once-secret rookery in the woods near Rochester continue to stir up controversy.
    — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • In Savoonga, residents also see fewer birds in a rocky island rookery near the village.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • An impaired sea lion will have trouble knowing where to find food or recalling the location of their rookery, or breeding grounds.
    — Matthew Berger, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2015
  • Adamson and his neighbor Leal Segura say the heron rookery needs protection.
    — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
  • In southern California, sea lions were forced to swim farther from their rookeries to feed and thousands of pups were left stranded on beaches.
    — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The declining water level revealed a land bridge connecting an island rookery to the shore, allowing coyotes to pad across and feast on gulls and their nests.
    — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
  • For the last three years, the team has also operated a similar live stream of a rattlesnake rookery in California.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
  • In the 1990s, harbor seals began gathering there and creating a rookery.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 May 2017
  • Perched on a hillside with plenty of rocks and places to hide out, the rattlesnake rookery in northern Colorado is helping researchers learn more about these venomous reptiles.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
  • The developer will wait until two years after the rookery improvements are completed to allow vegetation around the site to grow in.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
  • During the breeding season, females stay close enough to their rookery to return regularly to feed their young, although their trips to forage tend to grow longer as the pup develops.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Mature white sharks prefer the open ocean, or marine mammal rookeries at the Farallon or Channel Islands.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 May 2017
  • In the 1990s, the city of Carrollton came under scrutiny after killing and injuring birds in a rookery.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026

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