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{{short description|Colony of breeding animals}}
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[[File:RooksBackOfSavrasov.jpg|thumb|[[The Rooks Have Returned|''The Rooks Have Come Back Again'']], [[Alexei Savrasov]], 1871, canvas, oil, The [[Tretyakov Gallery]], Moscow]]
[[File:2021-12 Amsterdam Island - Indian yellow-nosed albatross 14.jpg|thumb|Colonies of [[Indian yellow-nosed albatross|Indian yellow-nosed albatrosses]] on [[Amsterdam Island]]]]
[[File:Fur seals in rookery Pribilof Islands 1950s.PNG|thumb|[[Fur seal]]s in a rookery in the [[Pribilof Islands]] in the 1950s.]]
A '''rookery''' is a colony of breeding [[Rook (bird)|rooks]], and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally [[gregarious]]<ref>
{{Cite web
 | last=Mayntz | first=Melissa
 | date=December 17, 2020
 | title=Rookery - Nesting Colonies
 | url=https://www.thespruce.com/glossary-definition-rookery-385367
 | access-date=2021-05-22
 | website=The Spruce
 | language=en
}}</ref> birds.<ref>
{{cite web
 | title= Rookery
 | url= http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rookery|publisher= The Free Dictionary
 | access-date= 24 May 2013
}}</ref>

Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for [[corvids]] and the breeding grounds<ref>
{{Cite journal
 | author1 = Ceriani
 | author2 = Weishampel
 | author3 = Ehrhart
 | author4 = Mansfield
 | author5 = Wunder
 | date    = 4 December 2017
 | title   = Foraging and recruitment hotspot dynamics for the largest Atlantic loggerhead turtle rookery
 | journal = Scientific Reports
 | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | pages = 16894
 | doi     = 10.1038/s41598-017-17206-3
 | pmid = 29203929 | pmc = 5715148
}}</ref> of colony-forming [[seabird]]s, marine [[mammal]]s ([[true seal]]s or [[sea lion]]s), and even some [[turtle]]s. [[Rook (bird)|Rooks]] (northern-European and central-Asian members of the [[Corvidae|crow family]]) have multiple nests in prominent colonies at the tops of trees.<ref>
However, since rooks are found in Europe and Asia and are unlike herons, and corvids do not nest in large masses in the Western world, it is more fitting to refer to birds that nest with herons as nesting in a Heronry or seabirds or other birds nesting together in trees, cliffs, or on the ground as nesting in a breeding colony.
{{cite web
 | title= The Crow Family
 | url= http://www.wildengland.com/wild-animals/resident-birds/-crow-family
 | publisher= Wild England
 | access-date= 24 May 2013
 | url-status= dead
 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121227084004/http://www.wildengland.com/wild-animals/resident-birds/-crow-family
 | archive-date= 27 December 2012
}}</ref> [[Paleontology|Paleontological]] evidence points to the existence of rookery-like colonies in the [[pterosaur]] ''[[Pterodaustro]]''.<ref>
{{cite web
 | url          = http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041129/pterosaur.html
 | title        = Discovery News ''New Pterosaur Fossils Reveal Diversity''
 | publisher    = Dsc.discovery.com
 | access-date  = 2010-04-29
 | url-status   = dead
 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100326091238/http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041129/pterosaur.html
 | archive-date = 2010-03-26
}}</ref>

The term ''[[rookery (slum)|rookery]]'' was also borrowed as a name for dense [[slum]] housing in nineteenth-century cities, especially in [[London]].<ref>
{{cite web
 | url          = http://www.sevendials.com/seven_dials.php
 | title        = History of the Seven Dials Area
 | publisher    = Sevendials.com
 | access-date  = 2010-04-29
 | url-status   = dead
 | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100117052827/http://www.sevendials.com/seven_dials.php
 | archive-date = 2010-01-17
}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Auca Mahuevo]], for a [[titanosaur]]id [[sauropod]] dinosaur rookery
*[[Bird colony]]
*[[Heronry]]
*[[Rook shooting]]

==References==
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[[Category:Birds]]
[[Category:Reproductive ecology]]


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