Use "roosting" in a sentence
1. There were pigeons roosting in the dish.
2. Roosting on the ledge outside, I hadn't seen it.
3. The custom of roosting together is quite common among tropical butterflies.
4. The explosion scattered a flock of birds roosting in the trees.
5. Bluebirds and other species often use nest boxes for roosting in cold weather
6. Two other red kites showed a marked alternation of the roosting place.
7. Bats do not chew holes to make openings into buildings to set up roosting sites
8. Bryan now has an estimated 000 to 000 egrets roosting in nine parts of town.
9. After the last apostolic figure makes its appearance, a gilded cock roosting above the windows crows.
10. Turkey Buzzards can be a true nuisance if they've taken to roosting on the property of homeowners
11. They excavate holes in dead or dying trees (usually conifer snags) for both roosting and nesting purposes.
12. Some groups of roosting corvids can be very large, with a roost of 65,000 rooks counted in Scotland.
13. Heated bird baths are especially critical for winter Bluebirds, and roosting boxes are also useful in the colder months
14. Batfowl: To catch roosting birds at night by blinding them with a light and then hitting or netting them.
15. Usually Anhingas are found nesting and roosting in trees and bushes in freshwater swamps, lakes, sluggish streams in sheltered and murky waters
16. Bottomland hardwood forests are important to SEM and RBEB (Clark et al., 1998; Cochran, 1999), providing roosting and foraging habitat (Tiner, 1984)
17. If trees are the preferred roosting area, remove the trees or cover them in bird netting to keep the Buzzards and vultures from landing on
18. If possible, Birdhouses should be left up year round for use as roosting sites or as winter shelter for migratory birds, however, they can be taken down, cleaned, and put back up after nesting season is over
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20. When roosting, the animal prefers the warm upper regions of limestone caves with high ceilings and many chambers —places that afford more protection and minimize the loss of body heat, which is an important consideration for tiny, warm-blooded mammals.
21. ‘The loud Cackle of the roosting birds on the trees disturbed her thought.’ ‘Close by lies a lochan, known locally as the duck pond, a place usually ringing with the Cackles of mallards.’ ‘The vocalizations of falconids are simple, repeated monosyllabic calls, described variously as Cackles, chatters, squawks, croaks, wails and whines.’
22. ‘After each trial, lights were used again to entice birds back to the roosting Aviary.’ ‘Housing for these birds should be an Aviary with dimensions of at least 8 feet by 5 feet by 6 feet.’ ‘Animal lover Janet has an outdoor Aviary with 40 other birds plus three dogs, two cats and fish.’