Rookery

Rookery

A rookery is a colony of breeding animals.

The term is most commonly applied to the nesting place of birds, such as the crow and rook, a bird similar to the crow, but smaller. The term is also used to describe the breeding grounds of the penguin and seabirds in general.

A rookery may also be a place where marine mammals such as the seal, sea lion, and walrus breed, give birth, and nurse their young, such as a beach or similar location.

A turtle rookery is typically a beach where the adult female nests and buries her eggs.

Archaeology

Archeological evidence points to the existence of a pterodaustro rookery. In Argentina, the lagarcito formation contained pterosaur nests, and layers of bodies of the pterodaustro. [ [http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041129/pterosaur.html Discovery News "New Pterosaur Fossils Reveal Diversity"] ]

Lostan's River

In the book Lostan's River by Cynthia DeFelice, Tyler and Tommy go to a plum birds rookery. Then Tyler takes Mr Strawbridge to that location. When Mr Strawbrdge meets the Plume Hunters he dies.Facts|date=November 2007

lums

The term 'rookery' was also used as a name for dense slum housing in nineteenth-century cities, and especially London. Both St Giles and the Seven Dials were described as rookeries. [ [http://www.sevendials.com/seven_dials.php History of the Seven Dials Area] ]

References

ee also

*Seabird colony
*Auca Mahuevo, for a titanosaurid Sauropod dinosaur rookery


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