Rookery
Rook nest colony – rookery
A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally birds.[1]Rooks – northern-European and central-Asian members of the crow family – nest in prominent colonies (multiple nests) at the tops of trees.[2] The word applies to the nesting place of birds, such as crows and rooks, the source of the term. The breeding grounds of colony-forming seabirds and marine mammals (true seals or sea lions) and even some turtles are also referred to[3] as rookeries.
The term "rookery" was also borrowed as a name for dense slum housing in nineteenth-century cities, especially in London.[4]
Paleontological evidence points to the existence of rookery-like colonies in the pterosaur Pterodaustro.[5]
See also
Auca Mahuevo, for a titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur rookery- Bird colony
- Rook shooting
References
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^ Ceriani, Weishampel, Ehrhart, Mansfield, Wunder (4 December 2017). "Foraging and recruitment hotspot dynamics for the largest Atlantic loggerhead turtle rookery". Scientific Reports. 7.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
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"Discovery News ''New Pterosaur Fossils Reveal Diversity''". Dsc.discovery.com. Archived from the original on 2010-03-26. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
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