rooster

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In 2018, photographer David Walter Banks captured Santa Monica, Calif.-based Tommy Kendall, a retired champion automobile race-car driver, with his 1973 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight, outfitted to look like a giant rooster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

While he speaks to me from his home in Sierra Leone, a rooster crows in the background, punctuating his sentences like a barnyard hype man.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2025

When Russo was able to return briefly to her property, she found that a hen, four chicks and a rooster were gone.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025

A rooster is held in a cage on a farm on January 23, 2023 in Austin, Texas.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024

A dusty Rhode Island red rooster who had wandered too far from his own farmyard crossed the road and Eddie hit him without running too far off the road.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck