rookery
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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
In the rookery, jet-black newborn pups wriggled close to their mothers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
"Maester Pylos, do me a kindness and bring the bird down from the rookery for the Lady Shireen."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The sea lion breeding and pupping season is fast approaching at main rookeries such as the Channel Islands, according to Giancarlo Rulli, associate director of public relations for the Marine Mammal Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
The females, they say, may make lots of connections at the rookeries where they congregate to give birth.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 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
The Jet Skis either deliberately or accidentally can go up too close to the rookeries.
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
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