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And your little white lies will come home to roost.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

The third case involved covert surveillance at a hen harrier roost in the Yorkshire Dales where investigators captured evidence of a planned attempt to kill one of the UK's rarest birds of prey.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

At one point Neriya and her companions are ushered into the sanctum sanctorum of a corvid roost, where thousands if not millions of crows coexist in sophisticated collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

"Now the chickens are coming home to roost."

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

Overhead, I hear the trilling of birds calling to one another as they roost for the night and see glowing lights kindle in hollow knotholes as sprites come awake.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

His team has closely monitored this elusive forest-dwelling species using "smart" roosts equipped with antennas to detect implanted microchips in the bats.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

Researchers have tested out blowing probitoic-laden dust into bat roosts when they vacate for the night, allowing it to coat them when they return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

"Protecting these maternity roosts, or promoting them where they do not yet exist, is an important part of conservation."

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

At dusk, hundreds of wild parrots, some in large flocks, some singly or in pairs, approach from all directions, squawking loudly and circling overhead before settling on a variety of roosts.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 13, 2023

He roosts right inside our latrine, which is near where his empty cage was thrown by the Reverend into the weeds.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

To test the method, the team examined hundreds of tiny fossil bones left behind by owls that once roosted inside the cave.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

Many of these were condors that had roosted in Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs, the same place where captive-bred birds were first released in 1996.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 29, 2023

Bats that were fleeing this human-caused disaster roosted above pigsties in Malaysia.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023

His ode to his diet, “The Tea Song,” convinced Young that a peculiar talent roosted upstairs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

Bats roosted in the ceiling of the room near his desk.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

In March, the Town of Hillsborough sued Kenneth and Linda Ostrand, demanding they stop feeding a large group of the black vultures roosting on their property.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Creating roosting areas for displaced bats is a statutory requirement and the costs are predominantly being met from central government funding and developer contributions.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

Expect to see and hear more chickens roosting in the next four years.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

Japan is no exception, but the birds enjoy some legal immunity, forcing city dwellers to put up with these unwanted guests roosting and cooing on their balconies.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

Sometimes she even spent nights away from her cabin, roosting with the chickens in the trees, or camping out on the prairie.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder