Rookery
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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.
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[edit] 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.[1]
[edit] 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.[citations needed]
[edit] Slums
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.[2]
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[edit] See also
- Auca Mahuevo, for a titanosaurid Sauropod dinosaur rookery
