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“Now all the chickens are coming to roost here at the end of the year,” said Melissa Wall of Aprio, an accounting and advisory firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

On Tuesday, they were spotted together in a favorite roost tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

He said: "Bat boxes and other known roost sites were swabbed to collect eDNA samples, revealing the presence of the rare migrant bat."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

“And I think that’s going to accelerate in the back half of the year, when these high energy costs and fertilizer costs come to roost for our major agricultural producers,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

Then the darkness would say to him “sleep,” and he would run back to his roost, pull his foot into his breast feathers, and close his eyes.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

The development is expected to displace 130 bat roosts but Reform UK county councillor, Vernon Smith, said he was astonished by the cost of the project.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

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

"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

The rattlesnake’s head appears behind one of the roosts.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

I pushed the issue, saying I was working on a novel about this relative, and would just enjoy seeing where he'd roosted all these years, but she was shaking her head no, no, no.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2021

On the blackened stump, they found traces of DNA left behind by bats that had apparently roosted in the tree.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 28, 2021

A blackbird with a yellow beak flew into the open area and roosted on a tree branch.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

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

A woman has been forced to sleep in her car after discovering hundreds of bats roosting in her home - and being told there is nothing she can do to remove them.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025

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

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

And as part of the toll lane, they have requested Caltrans create a plan that would ensure the bats aren’t disturbed going forward, especially in their roosting season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Pigeons, roosting en masse, were easy to harvest, as the Seneca hunt showed.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann