A rookery is a colony of breeding animals.
The term is most commonly applied to the nesting place of birds, such as the crow and rook, a bird similar to the crow, but smaller. Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. The true crows are large Passerine Birds that comprise the Genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. The Rook ( Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the Passerine order of birds and the crow family The term is also used to describe the breeding grounds of the penguin and seabirds in general. Penguins ( order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless Birds living almost Seabirds are Birds that have adapted to life within the marine environment
A rookery may also be a place where marine mammals such as the seal, sea lion, and walrus breed, give birth, and nurse their young, such as a beach or similar location. Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands Pinnipeds ("fin-feet" lit "winged feet" or fin-footed mammals are a widely distributed and diverse group of semi-aquatic marine Mammals comprising For other uses of the term "sea lion" see Sea lion (disambiguation. The walrus ( Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered Marine mammal with a discontinuous circumpolar distribution in the Arctic Ocean and
A turtle rookery is typically a beach where the adult female nests and buries her eggs. Turtles are Reptiles of the Order Testudines (all living turtles belong to the Crown group Chelonia) most of
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Archaeology
Archeological evidence points to the existence of a pterodaustro rookery. Pterodaustro was a Cretaceous Pterosaur from South America, living 140 million years ago In Argentina, the lagarcito formation contained pterosaur nests, and layers of bodies of the pterodaustro. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. [1]
Lostan's River
In the book Lostan's River by Cynthia DeFelice, Tyler and Tommy go to a plum birds rookery. Then Tyler takes Mr Strawbridge to that location. When Mr Strawbrdge meets the Plume Hunters he dies.
Slums
The term 'rookery' was also used as a name for dense slum housing in nineteenth-century cities, and especially London. A rookery (also sometimes described as a stew) was the colloquial British English name historically given to a city Slum or Ghetto frequented by poor people 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 London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Both St Giles and the Seven Dials were described as rookeries. [2]
References
See also
- Seabird colony
- Auca Mahuevo, for a titanosaurid Sauropod dinosaur rookery
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