heronry

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The most interesting time to visit the heronry is in the breeding season, for then one sees the lank birds continually homing from the Amberley Wild Brooks with fishes in their bills and long legs streaming behind.

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  1. noun A place where herons nest and breed.

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  • Nature Park in Batu Gajah with the largest heronry in the country is in danger of being destroyed unless proper management is implemented fast by the Perak Government. —  WN.com - Articles related to Invasive plant killing Dartmouth lake
  • Thus far, RFTA has committed about $250,000 to wildlife monitoring and another $40,000 to vegetative screening to protect the heronry, and then chose not to accept the recommendations of the wildlife monitoring or even wait until their vegetative screening leafed out in the spring so that it might actually benefit the herons. —  Aspen Times - Top Stories
  • If the recommendations of all experts to increase closures, and the abandonment of our valley's largest heronry aren't compelling reasons for change, I'd like to know just what would constitute a compelling reason. —  Aspen Times - Top Stories
  • Like any heronry, it should be a hive of frenzied activity all conducted behind a garrulous cacophony of squawks and the strong whiff of guano.
  • The 203-acre Booby Pond Nature Reserve is the Cayman Islands only RAMSAR site, and is also home to a breeding colony of Magnificent Frigate Birds and large heronry. —  Cayman Net News Daily Headlines
 

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/ˈhɛrənri/
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