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“Now all the chickens are coming to roost here at the end of the year,” said Melissa Wall of Aprio, an accounting and advisory firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

On Tuesday, they were spotted together in a favorite roost tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The finding was later confirmed in follow-up surveys, marking the first confirmed roost of the species in South Yorkshire.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

And he has been patrolling the skies and the lawns since 2008, ruling the roost at the centuries old site.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

It would have been a perfect roost for secretly filming the casino boat, except for a couple of problems.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

The bat roosts are costing £166,000 and are part of the £372m major road upgrades which are due to be completed at the Gloucestershire junction over the next three years.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

His team has closely monitored this elusive forest-dwelling species using "smart" roosts equipped with antennas to detect implanted microchips in the bats.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

Researchers have tested out blowing probitoic-laden dust into bat roosts when they vacate for the night, allowing it to coat them when they return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024

How about a nocturnal animal like an owl or those nighttime migrants – will they start to rustle from their roosts before they realize it’s not night?

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2024

He roosts right inside our latrine, which is near where his empty cage was thrown by the Reverend into the weeds.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

To test the method, the team examined hundreds of tiny fossil bones left behind by owls that once roosted inside the cave.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

Colorful birds roosted on tangled branches and trunks, and small paths under the green and occasionally yellow leaves beckoned us to explore.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

Many of these were condors that had roosted in Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs, the same place where captive-bred birds were first released in 1996.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 29, 2023

Bats that were fleeing this human-caused disaster roosted above pigsties in Malaysia.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2023

The paper birds roosted on branches and stones and the remains of chimneys and walls and old buildings.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

With the construction of homes, stadiums and other buildings throughout the county, bats have adapted to roosting in spaces such as the eaves of homes or in crawl spaces, Curti said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Chicken thighs are roosting in recipes from high-end wellness resorts for top spenders and in the grocery carts of average consumers who are increasingly steering toward poultry because of record-high beef prices in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

The falconer says the hawk is trained not to attack pigeons or gulls but will instead scare them into roosting and nesting elsewhere.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

Expect to see and hear more chickens roosting in the next four years.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

The area was a favored roosting site for thousands of blackbirds that were feeding in nearby cornfields.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson