Arookery is a colony of breedingrooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generallygregarious[1] birds.[2]
Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used forcorvids and the breeding grounds[3] of colony-formingseabirds, marinemammals (true seals orsea lions), and even someturtles.Rooks (northern-European and central-Asian members of thecrow family) have multiple nests in prominent colonies at the tops of trees.[4]Paleontological evidence points to the existence of rookery-like colonies in thepterosaurPterodaustro.[5]
The termrookery was also borrowed as a name for denseslum housing in nineteenth-century cities, especially inLondon.[6]
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