come home to roost

Examples of roosting

roosting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

On one occasion we saw three individuals roosting together about 10 m above the ground beneath a disused bird's nest.
Reduced-wing or wingless flies are associated with various unrelated clades of bats, seemingly without regard to roosting habits.
However, palms are also roosting sites for frugivorous bats which may disperse small seeds to palm sites.
Families likewise varied considerably in characteristic roosting structures.
We often find roosting bats by accident and such discoveries can change our view of the situations in which bats roost.
Correlations between roosting habits and levels of parasitism are low when all bats are considered.
Individual females were also found roosting sequentially with up to three different males.
Overwintering sites were also censused during late morning to exclude the unlikely possibility that inhabitants were simply roosting (and otherwise reproductively active).
In so doing, descriptions of resource location, individual home range and resource use (flower host, roosting place, etc.) were provided.
These roosting structures vary in durability from transient to permanent.
Ranking roosting structures by durability and protection, we sought correlations among bat species in prevalence, mean intensity and number of associated fly species.
An alternative explanation is that a given sample of diurnal roosting groups will include only those males that have successfully defended territories and recruited females.
Because they feed on high-quality fruits, understorey frugivores feed in a series of discontinuous bouts separated by long periods of roosting or sleeping.
However, roosting habits alone do not explain the absence or paucity of streblid flies from these families.
On all three occasions, the raptor caught the animal in the roosting tree and then carried its prey off to another perch.
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