A rookery is a colony breeding rooks , and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds.
2-408: A heronry , sometimes called a heron rookery , is a breeding ground for herons . Although their breeding territories are often on more protected small islands in lakes or retention ponds, herons breed in heronries (or also called rookeries, especially since other birds join them like spoonbills, storks, and cormorants). Some of the notable heronries are: This Pelecaniformes -related article
4-451: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rookery Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for corvids and the breeding grounds of colony-forming seabirds , marine mammals ( true seals or sea lions ), and even some turtles . Rooks (northern-European and central-Asian members of the crow family ) have multiple nests in prominent colonies at the tops of trees. Paleontological evidence points to
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