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

It was another narrow spit of land, with a penguin rookery and a glacier nosing down the mountainside nearby.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

The Jet Skis either deliberately or accidentally can go up too close to the rookeries.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2023

Alligators living beneath bird rookeries used them, while others didn’t.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2013

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