roost
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“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
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
The third case involved covert surveillance at a hen harrier roost in the Yorkshire Dales where investigators captured evidence of a planned attempt to kill one of the UK's rarest birds of prey.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
At one point Neriya and her companions are ushered into the sanctum sanctorum of a corvid roost, where thousands if not millions of crows coexist in sophisticated collaboration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
With much labor the companions managed to raise the heavy Crochan and carry it from the chicken roost.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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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
"Protecting these maternity roosts, or promoting them where they do not yet exist, is an important part of conservation."
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
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
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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
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
Some of the other young condors visited A6 and even roosted near him at night during his odyssey.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2023
The paper birds, as if by some signal, lifted in one great flutter of wings and roosted next to the girl.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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They said a variety of deterrents, including spikes and vapour-releasing gel pods to discourage roosting, were used as a first port of call.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
Expect to see and hear more chickens roosting in the next four years.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
The odd locale is believed to be one of the most populous roosting sites for parrots in the Los Angeles area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
The birds, roosting on low branches, were too full and too stupid to flee.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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