rookery
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The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
A brothel.
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The State, that craving rookery of committees and subcommittees.
After several continuous days of nursing the newborn pups, females go on extended foraging trips that can last as long as a week, returning to the rookery to feed their pups until they are weaned.
After a week or so of nursing without leaving the rookery, females begin to take progressively longer and more frequent foraging trips, leaving their pups behind, until at some point in late summer the mother and pup both leave the rookery.
About 7,000 flatback turtle eggs are about to be laid at Australia's only privately owned turtle rookery but only seven hatchlings are expected to live to adulthood.
At the Pacific Ocean's largest green sea turtle rookery, a crisis is unfolding, likely thanks to warming temperatures.
Brand-new Special Agent Tom Lange of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is called to Rookery Bay, Naples, where a decomposing body has been discovered by kayakers.