Sentence examples for rookeries from inspiring English sources

After a shaky start, when over-enthusiastic visitors almost wrecked a site called Gypsy Cove by trampling over the birds' breeding grounds (which are known as rookeries), penguin numbers are increasing.

Since Falklands Conservation cordoned off the cove's main rookeries in 1999, the number of breeding pairs there has more than doubled to 354.

The islands are important bird rookeries.

In the environs are penguin rookeries.

Safeguarding penguin rookeries that particularly attract tourist photographers is of special concern.

Since January 1966, yearly tourist ships have plied Antarctic coastal waters, stopping here and there for visits at scientific stations and at penguin rookeries.

The whole Commons rises in a tumult over the king's demands for tax, the king sulkily stalks out, the nobles shout their defiance (as shocking as throwing their gauntlets to the floor), and it is all much as Chaucer depicts it in the "Parliament of Fowls" ("Kek kek! kokkow! quek quek"), or in the "House of Fame", when the volume of disputing contenders for honour becomes as deafening as a rookery.

To maximise your chances, head to a rookery during nesting season and hire a guide when you arrive.

THERE was nothing subtle about the party on February 9th: a lavish affair in the lobby of The Rookery, an elegant building in the heart of Chicago's financial centre, with searchlights menacing the art deco façade of the Chicago Board of Trade CBOTT) building only steps away.

Finished a year after William Le Baron Jenney's Home Insurance Building (completed 1885), which was the first building to use structural steel members for partial support, the Rookery used both a masonry load-bearing wall and a skeleton frame (a grid of vertical steel columns and horizontal steel beams) in its construction.

The Rookery (1884 86) evidently was influenced by the Romanesque Revival style of H.H. Richardson.