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roost | American Dictionary

roost
noun[ C ]
us/rust/
a place, such as a branch of a tree, where birds rest or sleep

roost

verb[ I ]us/rust/
In the city, pigeons roost on the ledges of buildings.

Examples of roost

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On one occasion we saw three individuals roosting together about 10 m above the ground beneath a disused bird's nest.
The movement between roosts was not uniform each month, but f ollowed a pattern involving two d istinct phases, each lasting several months.
As calls were only audible f rom a range o f about 50-75 m, roosts further away were not found.
In so doing, descriptions of resource location, individual home range and resource use (flower host, roosting place, etc.) were provided.
Ranking roosting structures by durability and protection, we sought correlations among bat species in prevalence, mean intensity and number of associated fly species.
Throughout the diurnal home range, the colony roosted in 20 families of trees (27 genera and 31 species).
The male used six roosts in 9 days, the female two roosts in 5 days.
On four subsequent checks of the site, we did not find any more bats roosting there.
The animals also tended to use certain species of trees as roosts.
Similarly, it is also uncertain why larger trees were chosen as roosts.
The bats preferentially roosted in certain species of trees.
The numbers of days in which the animals roosted within the grid are shown.
However, availability of roosting sites does not seem to play a crucial role in the present case.
Apart from identifying suitable roosting sites, it is also important to know the kinds of food resources that sustain these populations in urban areas.
All of the leaf pellets were collected under the daytime roosts and feeding roosts.
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