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What is a rookery?

What is a rookery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
  2. A crowded tenement.
  3. (Britain) a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
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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.
It turns out that he has a particular fondness for penguins, and has taken it upon himself to create a rookery for them.
One mile south of the lighthouse is Oregon's only sea-lion rookery home to many California and Steller sea lions.
The gardens are well maintained and feature raised rookery flowerbeds at the front and a lawned area to the rear overlooking Blessington lake.
Instead of visiting the rookery, we'd stopped at a nearby site where a few dozen nonbreeding sea lions were hauled out.
This is the largest rookery in the world for the critically endangered species and half a million turtles nest here every winter.

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