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They’re even developing a routine: spending the night on the branches of a roost tree before following each other in flight at dawn, according to a Friends of Big Bear Valley Facebook post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

“The chickens are coming home to roost for a lot of people,” said Sean Burton, chief executive of the multifamily firm Cityview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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

And he has been patrolling the skies and the lawns since 2008, ruling the roost at the centuries old site.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Gurgi, meantime, had returned with a huge armload of straw from the chicken roost, and the companions gratefully began heaping it on the clay floor.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

In Britain, all bat species and their roosts are protected by law, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 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

How about a nocturnal animal like an owl or those nighttime migrants – will they start to rustle from their roosts before they realize it’s not night?

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 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

Few birds were seen in their normal foraging activities or assembling in their usual roosts.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

The team found the chimps were hardly alone in feeding on the guano, which came from a colony of Noack’s roundleaf bat that roosted in the tree.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2024

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

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

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

The paper birds, as if by some signal, lifted in one great flutter of wings and roosted next to the girl.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

The falconer says the hawk is trained not to attack pigeons or gulls but will instead scare them into roosting and nesting elsewhere.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 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

Since roosting overnight in a tree isn't sensible anyway, I scoop out a hollow under the bushes and cover myself with leaves and pine needles.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins