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Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Wood ducks will come to a roost site, often a marsh, in the evening by the hundreds.
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
The martins gather to form huge communal roosts at several sites in both Carolinas.
—Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
Big brown bats are not under a conservation status and roost in caves, mines and structures in the winter.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
Collect dry needles and add to your roost bedding, or just leave tree/branches in the run as a new roosting spot that will also provide insulation and wind protection during the colder months.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
By the end, a second round of voting determined that Royal Hen had to leave the roost, so Thicke got to put that Gloria Steinem guess to one final use.
—EW.com, 18 Oct. 2023
This is seen in bats as well (in addition to homosexual fellatio with other males in the roost).
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
Today, pigeons have taken roost in the council’s domed entrance.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
Safak Timur Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Bats, for instance, can roost by the tens of thousands.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
Because bats are social animals that tend to roost together and form colonies, rabies spreads easily among them.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
The birds roost on the braided river’s sandbars at night, then take to the skies at sunup and head toward neighboring corn fields.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
Warning signs As with any financial crisis, there will be warning signs when the national debt comes home to roost—though for consumers and markets this realization may not happen in synchrony.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
Registered watchers will meet at the Lost Bridge East SRA parking lot near the boat launch to being the caravan that will travel to a few different areas with the eagles feed and roost.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2024
Spring Courtship Display Any turkey hunter out to roost birds in the spring has probably heard a woodcock.
—Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
The vampire bat, for example, will fly into the trees at night when birds are roosting, then climb under their feet and flip a scale from one of their toes before feeding.
—Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, from Old English hrōst; akin to Old Saxon hrōst attic
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1530, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
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“Roost.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/roost. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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