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He said previously the team would have to climb the trees at night to "try to visually identify a species occupying a bat roost", which was time consuming.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

“And I think that’s going to accelerate in the back half of the year, when these high energy costs and fertilizer costs come to roost for our major agricultural producers,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

As The Wall Street Journal’s Theo Francis details elsewhere, chip maker Nvidia rules the roost thanks to high scores on five of the six vectors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

So I made my way to Highland Park to meet the one who rules the roost.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

The birds lifted from their roost and massed behind the girl.

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

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

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

At dusk, hundreds of wild parrots, some in large flocks, some singly or in pairs, approach from all directions, squawking loudly and circling overhead before settling on a variety of roosts.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 13, 2023

Two out of the three roosts have been sprayed.

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023

We found the lake again just as the sun was setting and bats were screeching out of their hidden roosts.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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

The team found the chimps were hardly alone in feeding on the guano, which came from a colony of Noack’s roundleaf bat that roosted in the tree.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 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

Once, May injured a bat by mistake, crushing it when she opened a window it had roosted on.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

In March, the Town of Hillsborough sued Kenneth and Linda Ostrand, demanding they stop feeding a large group of the black vultures roosting on their property.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

In mid Wales, Aberystwyth Royal Pier in Ceredigion attracts both amusement arcade enthusiasts and roosting starlings who draw crowds when they flock to create magnificent murmurations.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024

Madison’s annual Fourth of July fireworks extravaganza raised multiple alarms, as the detonations traumatized roosting birds and sent them fleeing, many into traffic, and damaged wetland duck habitats with toxic detritus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

Blackbirds swarmed above the junipers; their noise increased with the dawn light and they fluttered and circled their roosting places restlessly.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko