How to Use rookery in a Sentence

rookery

noun

• It’s because the 1-square-mile island is the largest Western gull rookery in the West.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• The bird discovered a tasty treat near a rookery at the Ballard Locks.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
• Herons and egrets, which have rookeries and a strong presence in Armand Bayou, were two of those species.
  — Jennifer Bolton and Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2018
• Virtually all the sea lions seen in the rivers and bays of the West Coast are males; most females stay near the rookeries.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• In the rookery, jet-black newborn pups wriggled close to their mothers.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• On one slope was an elephant seal rookery, with 500-pound juveniles lolling on the rocks.
  — Bonnie Tsui, New York Times, 19 May 2016
• The rookery was mainly populated by adults, with a few youngsters in the mix.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Before the fires are set, biologists and fire staff will make sure no bird rookeries will be harmed.
  — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 May 2018
• This is the only rookery of its kind in the world that’s easily accessible and free to the public every day of the year.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2023
• Sometimes, the birds select unique urban locales for their rookeries, such as Thames Street Park.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 Sep. 2023
• To get a better look, Lynch’s team ventured to the islands in December 2015, counting penguin rookeries from the ground and with an off-the-shelf aerial drone.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2018
• Gaze over the gunwales and listen: There’s an egret rookery out on Indian Island.
  — Robert Earle Howells, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
• The great blue herons nesting in their once-secret rookery in the woods near Rochester continue to stir up controversy.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
• La Jolla protects pups left on the rookery while mothers forage.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2023
• The rookery is free and open every day with a wheelchair-accessible boardwalk for viewing the seals from a safe distance.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Their parents sometimes died while flying over oceans or swamps (which preserve delicate bones), but the young stayed put in their rookeries.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Bell had apparently discovered the remains of the first known pterosaur rookery.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• In April, trained volunteers from Audubon and Oakland Zoo began making daily checks of the streets surrounding the rookery.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 24 May 2017
• In addition, the park service notes that northern elephant seals start convening at their rookery sites in late fall.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Piedras Blancas Rookery is the only elephant seal rookery in the world that’s easily accessible, free, and open to the public every day.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 12 May 2022
• In the 1990s, harbor seals began gathering there and creating a rookery.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 May 2017
• For years, researchers in Australia have struggled to accurately count thousands of green sea turtles that come to Raine Island, the largest green turtle rookery in the world.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2020
• In Savoonga, residents also see fewer birds in a rocky island rookery near the village.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• The towering sea cave just north of Florence is home to a Steller sea lion rookery, which generally stays inside the cave in the fall and winter, heading out to the rocky shores come spring and summer.
  — OregonLive.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Cathedral Pines is also home to a great blue heron rookery, where the 4-foot-tall birds roost in May. The forest service asks visitors to stay at least 300 feet away from the nesting area to avoid disturbing them.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Oct. 2019
• In the 1990s, harbor seals began gathering at Children’s Pool, creating a rookery and polluted the area with waste.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• In southern California, sea lions were forced to swim farther from their rookeries to feed and thousands of pups were left stranded on beaches.
  — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019
• Adamson and his neighbor Leal Segura say the heron rookery needs protection.
  — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 17 Apr. 2021
• One of the trips is camping with the emperor penguins, where travelers fly by ski aircraft to an emperor penguin rookery on the remote, south coast of the Weddell Sea.
  — Rebecca Maitland, Houston Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2018
• The declining water level revealed a land bridge connecting an island rookery to the shore, allowing coyotes to pad across and feast on gulls and their nests.
  — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 5 July 2018

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024