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The birds perched in the trees were not vultures but gentle cooing doves, with a few comically roosting chickens mixed among them.

But rows of fat hens roosted contentedly in their roosting boxes, with their red-combed heads nestled into their plump bodies.

Some of that was all the offensive line woes coming home to roost.

When Hussein was deposed in Iraq, the military officers, Ba’ath Party loyalists and regime-tied sycophants who ruled the roost for nearly a quarter-century were forced to make do with an entirely new situation.

Over the years, researchers experimented with roost cameras, military radar, hot-air balloons with ultrasound recorders, and GPS trackers -- struggling to create tools light enough for the bats to carry.