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 Translation for 'rookery' from English to Slovak
NOUN   a rookery | rookeries
orn.
hniezdisko {n}
rookery [nesting place of gregarious birds]
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Translation for 'rookery' from English to Slovak

rookery [nesting place of gregarious birds]
hniezdisko {n}orn.
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Usage Examples English
  • The people in a rookery were often immigrants, criminals, or working class.
  • In about 1860 in "A Visit to the Rookery of St Giles and its Neighbourhood", he mentions the area again and uses the term rookery.
  • Part of the Northern Party, Levick spent the austral summer of 1911–1912 at Cape Adare in the midst of an Adélie penguin rookery.
  • The islands have sparse vegetation and are a seabird rookery and turtle nesting area.
  • There is a known blue heron rookery in proximity to the reservoir.

  • A hastily constructed hall nicknamed the 'old rookery' was built around a water tank that survived the fire at LaSalle and Adams streets—today, that site houses the Rookery Building (built 1888).
  • The rookery at Bogston was unusual in that the birds had been induced to nest at the site, the first recorded time that this had been achieved until one was likewise 'induced' at Morishill by the simple expedient of tying sticks in the branches.
  • The heron rookery is located along the East Arm Little Calumet River in the northeast corner of Porter County.
  • A rookery was a slum area whose inhabitants aggressively and cooperatively opposed law enforcement.
  • It was mapped from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions surveys and air photos, 1956–66, and was so named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia because it is almost due south from Auster Rookery and affords an excellent landmark if approaching the rookery along the coast from Mawson Station.

  • The largest elephant seal rookery on the West Coast is located about a mile south of the lighthouse along California Highway One.
  • The rookery at nearby Pea Patch Island hosts over 6,000 pairs of nine species, making it the largest rookery of colonial wading birds on the east coast north of Florida.
  • Giganteus Island lies just north of the Rookery Islands in the west part of Holme Bay, MacRobertson Land.
  • They were mapped from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) surveys and from air photos 1959–66, and so named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia because of the nearness of the islands to Auster rookery, and because they have provided a camp site for ANARE parties visiting the rookery.
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