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A rookery is a colony of breeding animals.

The term is applied to the nesting place of bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
s, such as crows and rooks
Rook (bird)

The Rook is a member of the Corvidae family in the passerine order of birds. Named by Linnaeus in 1758, the species name frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering"....
, the source of the term. The breeding grounds of colony forming seabird
Seabird

Seabirds are birds that have adaptation to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behavior and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same environmental problems and feeding ecological niche have resulted in similar adaptations....
s and marine mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s (true seals or sea lion
Sea Lion

For other uses of the term "sea lion", see Sea lion .Sea lions are any of seven species in six genera of modern pinnipeds including one extinct ....
s) and even some turtles are referred to as rookeries.

Paleolgical evidence points to the existence of a pterodaustro
Pterodaustro

Pterodaustro was a Cretaceous pterosaur from South America, living 140 million years ago. Pterodaustro had a wingspan of 133 centimeters , and possessed about 1,000 tall, narrow bristle like teeth, which presumably were used in filter-feeding, much like modern flamingos....
 rookery.

'Rookery
Rookery (slum)

A rookery was the colloquial British English name historically given to a city slum or ghetto frequented by poor people, criminals and prostitutes....
' has also been used as a name for dense slum
Slum

A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security....
 housing in nineteenth-century cities, and especially London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
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A rookery is a colony of breeding animals.

The term is applied to the nesting place of bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
s, such as crows and rooks
Rook (bird)

The Rook is a member of the Corvidae family in the passerine order of birds. Named by Linnaeus in 1758, the species name frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering"....
, the source of the term. The breeding grounds of colony forming seabird
Seabird

Seabirds are birds that have adaptation to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behavior and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same environmental problems and feeding ecological niche have resulted in similar adaptations....
s and marine mammal
Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s (true seals or sea lion
Sea Lion

For other uses of the term "sea lion", see Sea lion .Sea lions are any of seven species in six genera of modern pinnipeds including one extinct ....
s) and even some turtles are referred to as rookeries.

Paleolgical evidence points to the existence of a pterodaustro
Pterodaustro

Pterodaustro was a Cretaceous pterosaur from South America, living 140 million years ago. Pterodaustro had a wingspan of 133 centimeters , and possessed about 1,000 tall, narrow bristle like teeth, which presumably were used in filter-feeding, much like modern flamingos....
 rookery.

'Rookery
Rookery (slum)

A rookery was the colloquial British English name historically given to a city slum or ghetto frequented by poor people, criminals and prostitutes....
' has also been used as a name for dense slum
Slum

A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security....
 housing in nineteenth-century cities, and especially London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

See also

  • Seabird colony
  • Auca Mahuevo
    Auca Mahuevo

    The sedimentary deposits in eroded badlands at Auca Mahuevo in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, Argentina, are among the paleontology's rare lagerst?tten, the undisturbed strata that give glimpses of a range of ecology at a given moment in the History of Earth....
    , for a titanosaurid
    Titanosaur

    Titanosaurs were a diverse group of Sauropoda dinosaurs, which included Saltasaurus and Isisaurus. It includes some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth, such as Argentinosaurus and Paralititan — which might have weighed up to 100 tonnes or, perhaps, even double that, if some poorly-described data are to be...
     Sauropod dinosaur rookery