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And you can see how many dovecots and birds – people feed them!

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2018

Even so, Lepine's report fluttered the dovecots of the Ministry of Health.

From Time Magazine Archive

Domestic fowls, in plenty, and pigeons with dovecots like those in Egypt were seen. 

From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by Livingstone, David

The all but featureless flat spread forty miles on every side, and the roofs of the largest buildings below were as dovecots.

From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George

Great was the jealousy in Witching Hill Road, but futile the fluttering of our Queen Anne dovecots; for we saw very little more of the Vicar for having him in our midst.

From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)