rookery

For the study, scientists collected brain samples from four sea lions, one fur seal and a tern found dead at the most affected sea lion rookery in Argentina.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024

The declining water level uncovered a land bridge connecting an island rookery to the shore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

The expedition was the first to sight an Emperor Penguin rookery and obtain an egg of the species.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2022

Animal lovers will likely want to make a stop at Piedras Blancas Rookery, which claims to be the world’s only elephant seal rookery that is free and open to the public 365 days a year.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

The females, they say, may make lots of connections at the rookeries where they congregate to give birth.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2023

Point La Jolla, known as one of California’s prime sea lion rookeries, will no longer be accessible to the public after a unanimous vote by the San Diego City Council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

“That’s what makes California so special: From San Francisco, you can go see any of these three major mainland rookeries within a one-day drive,” Ratner told me.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

Owner and director of the Anglesey Sea Zoo Frankie Hobro has seen first-hand the impact water scooters have on wildlife, including sea bird colonies, seal rookeries and pods of dolphins and porpoises.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2023

Perhaps if one less dragonfly had drowned in the Carboniferous swamps, the intelligent organisms on our planet today would have feathers and teach their young in rookeries.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan