rookery in English

noun

1

a breeding colony of rooks, typically seen as a collection of nests high in a clump of trees.

If a bird misbehaved itself such as claim or take over another bird's nest in the rookery the general body intervened and that bird was sentenced to isolation and had to go and live on a tree apart from the rest.

2

a dense collection of housing, especially in a slum area.

Tenements, rookeries , and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.

Use "rookery" in a sentence

1. The Chanteuse's Rookery is the first of 7 raid locations

2. In the present rookery there were odd things.

3. Last spring , Shadle headed to Tampa Bay to photograph a spoonbill rookery there.

4. Waxwork depicting Shanghai rookery in late 19th century, Shanghai History Museum, basement of Oriental Pearl Tower.

5. Then, back at the rookery ,(Sentencedict) the parent finds its own chick by voice recognition.

6. Synonyms for Bustee include slum, ghetto, hovel, favela, Cabbagetown, jhuggi, purlieu, rookery, shanty and shanty town

7. My mother and I lived in Rookery cottage, along with our servant . Peggotty.

8. Seen from a distance, the effect was like heat shimmer over the whole rookery.

9. They make the journey to Gorleston where they face Rookery Park in their semi-final.

10. The fascinated penguins approached Mr Schultz each day as he hiked from a helicopter base camp to the main Emperor rookery.

11. Cat Island, a bird rookery and barrier island in Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, La., is surrounded by boom—inflatable, floating cylinders.

12. Poorness ---poor and rich very great disparity, laborage level of works very low, to some tune RMB 00/month; It was had build of west, villadom and rookery.

13. In 1925 only 100 kings were counted at St. Andrews Bay; since then there has been a 300-fold increase in the rookery.

14. Walk up to the beach crest and the view opens up: to the south, penguins forever, a rookery of 000 pairs, the largest king penguin colony on South Georgia.

15. Do Cormorants damage vegetation in rookery areas where large numbers of Cormorants nest? The natural vegetation at all waterbird colonies typically dies from the long term accumulation of guano at the site

16. 16 hours ago · A great egret takes flight from a rookery, in background, on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, where a colony of wood storks and small groups of egrets and Anhinga are breeding in Port Richey.