...This tree is morespreading, and of another sort; it is crowned withthe filthy vultures, which roost day and night inconsiderable numbers on its upper branches...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...I’d rather eat stewed fish-heads than steal out of other folkseshouses so much till you went to sleep on the roost and fell down one night andbroke up the settin’hen...
Zora Hurston and Langston Hughes 「The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts」
...In the fall great flocks roost inchimneys, generally large ones, returning night afternight...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...During the migrations the Bank Swallow travels withother members of its family, sharing their roost in themarshes by night and their wayside perch by day...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...For all the domestic races are highly social, and none are known to build or habitually to roost on trees...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...On the 19th of July, 1889, the same friend informed me that one of ourCambridge ornithologists had found a robin roost in that city,—awood in which great numbers of birds congregated every night...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...He had heard of the roost, apparently (how andwhere?), but had not before visited it...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...On the 28th he counted 1180, ofwhich 456 passed within five minutes,—ninety-one a minute! On the2d of September, from a knoll nearer the roost, he counted 1883 entries...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
..." Two evenings later (September 27th) he went tothe neighborhood of the roost, and counted 251 birds,—insteadof 1883 on the 2d...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
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This roost was discovered by Mr...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...In late Julythey were scarce, even at a roost with several hundred crows...
Dwight Platt 「Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas」
...An early riser, and latein retiring to roost, the Swift is always on the wing...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...A good many,however, are shot by men and boys, who discover beforehand inwhat particular trees they roost, and, lying in ambush to await theirarrival, fire at them as they drop in in small parties...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Van Schouten sprang from his great chair of statelike a cockerel fluttering from a roost...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
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