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rookery

[ UK /ɹˈʊkəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)

How To Use rookery In A Sentence

  • A third-rate bookmaker or loan shark would be embarrassed to be associated with this sort of crookery. See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • You're virtually guaranteed to see avocets, and you will certainly see herons, since the ancient woodland, with its noisy rookery, has the largest heronry in the UK.
  • I certainly see that there is violence, mayhem, crookery and deceit all around me. Judie Fein: Pledge of Peace
  • It turns out that he has a particular fondness for penguins, and has taken it upon himself to create a rookery for them.
  • Between nursing intervals, the mother leaves the pup in the crowded rookery as she searches for food in the ocean.
  • Rooks are the harbingers of spring and many people would love to have a rookery nearby, as we have at Penpergwm.
  • The young take to the water early in the autumn and the rookery is deserted about that time, the last to leave being the old birds who stay behind to moult. With Shackleton to the Antarctic
  • No, to my mind, it's simply crookery. The Sun
  • This is the largest rookery in the world for the critically endangered species and half a million turtles nest here every winter.
  • Is this all some sort of bizarre coincidence, like deregulation and financial crookery or religious fundamentalism and bizarre rules on human behavior? mrtoads Re: House GOP Leadership Elections - Swampland - TIME.com
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