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Definition of Rookeries
1. rookery [n] - See also: rookery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rookeries
Literary usage of Rookeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"rookeries. In 1884 about 4000 skins wore taken in Bering Sea by three vessels,
and starved pups were noticed upon the islands that ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1891)
"All assertions are in a way, I take it, comparative, and when I wrote that "there
are absolutely no Heron rookeries on the Gulf Coast of Florida, ..."
3. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"rookeries. In 1884 about 4000 skins were taken in Bering Sea by three vessels,
and starved pups were noticed upon the islands that year lor the first time. ..."
4. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"But, from the moment of my landing at St. Paul Island, on the 21st of last May,
until the close of the breeding season, those famous rookeries and hauling ..."
5. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"Afterwards, upon going to the Commander Islands, I was struck with the comparative
insignificance of the rookeries upon the latter group; yet we have been ..."
6. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"Back of these shops and warehouses lies a network of narrow street and lanes, in
the squalid rookeries of which the thieves often conceal the plunder ..."
7. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"Hack of these shops and warehouses lies a network of narrow street and lanes, in
the squalid rookeries of which the thieves often conceal the plunder ..."
8. Narrative of Voyages & Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres by Amasa Delano (1817)
"They lay their eggs in rookeries. There is a smaller kind, of a white colour on
the breast, and black on the back of its wings and head. ..."
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