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This as their visiting fans acclaimed their team with a volley of applause that would have done justice to a rookery of seals.
The gardens are well maintained and feature raised rookery flowerbeds at the front and a lawned area to the rear overlooking Blessington lake.
Warning bells went off for locals in the 1970s after a deluge of visitors discovered the elephant seal rookery.
He picked up a handful of loose snow and tossed it towards the remains of the rookery, where Emma lay happily crunching carrots.
Rich fish stocks make it the only avian rookery in North America for sooty terns, masked boobies and frigate birds.
We also expect to see abundant turtles, as the Lacepedes are Western Australia's largest green turtle rookery.
Rooks are the harbingers of spring and many people would love to have a rookery nearby, as we have at Penpergwm.
Between nursing intervals, the mother leaves the pup in the crowded rookery as she searches for food in the ocean.
One mile south of the lighthouse is Oregon's only sea-lion rookery home to many California and Steller sea lions.
Instead of visiting the rookery, we'd stopped at a nearby site where a few dozen nonbreeding sea lions were hauled out.
It turns out that he has a particular fondness for penguins, and has taken it upon himself to create a rookery for them.
This is the largest rookery in the world for the critically endangered species and half a million turtles nest here every winter.
The picture on the television was of a sunny rock slope emerging from blue waters, with sea lions at rest on the rookery and swimming through the light swells at its edge.
To maximise your chances, head to a rookery during nesting season and hire a guide when you arrive.
Impressive hunters, hungry leopard seals may burst through a spot of soft ice near a baby penguin rookery, in an attempt to grasp a penguin walking above.
Tells about seals, and the penguin rookery at Crozier, the only one in the Antarctic.
A ratio of 4.0:1 was estimated for San Miguel Island based on the ages of immigrants to that rookery.
After watching a tapir feed on the algae covering a lagoon, Paula led us to a giant egret rookery, where the twilight screamed like a million soccer fans.
Pup production at the largest rookery on the Pribilof Islands has declined significantly, whereas pup production at the other 5 smaller rookeries has not changed appreciably or has increased over the last 30 years.
Such is the case with a rookery of Adélies that Fraser's team monitors on Avian Island, in Marguerite Bay, two hundred and fifty miles south of Palmer Station.
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Our rookery was in the middle swamp a day inland from Talimeco, safe and secret.
He also came upon a mollymawk rookery on the south-western point of the island, and managed to take one of the birds by hand.
Navigators have agreed in calling an assemblage of such encampments a rookery.
Before that, rookery after rookery had been visited and every seal butchered.
After lunch they all went off to the rookery, which was at the other side of the park from Gar Wood.
An interesting incident on November 26 was the discovery of an emperor penguin rookery.
Attached to each rookery was a pair of skua gulls, who swooped down and quickly flew off with any eggs left for a moment untended.
If ever you write a novel, Miss Manvers, mind you have a rookery in it.
The stream of birds from the rookery was flying in the same direction.
The proximity of a rookery does not affect all people alike.
I never saw a man do it, unless he was burned out of his rookery.
Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery.
I called a hackman, for my reading taught me what to do, and I told him to drive me to the Rookery.
Birmingham's planning committee was split over the proposal to adapt the building on the corner of Rookery Road and Newcombe Road.
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