Sentence example with the word 'heronries'

heronries

Last update: July 8, 2015


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In the month of January, if mild, but as a rule in February, Herons show a disposition to congregate, and soon after repair to their old-established breeding-places, called Heronries.   [Please select]

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Spoonbills do not appear to have been common at any time; for though Sir Thomas Browne enumerates them among the birds of Norfolk and Suffolk, where they build in heronries, his contemporary, Willughby, knew them only as natives of Holland.   [Please select]

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At breeding time these birds assemble in very large companies, and their nesting-places are called heronries or rookeries.   [Please select]

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Thanks to the night heron's habits that keep him concealed by day when gunners are abroad, a few large heronries still exist within an hour's ride of New York, in spite of much persecution.   [Please select]

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Like all Heronries, those of this species have a nauseating odor, from the remains of decayed fish, etc.   [Please select]

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