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The bat will think, “Oh, look at this lovely cave that’s just been created .... let me just roost up in here,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Now all the chickens are coming to roost here at the end of the year,” said Melissa Wall of Aprio, an accounting and advisory firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

He said: "Bat boxes and other known roost sites were swabbed to collect eDNA samples, revealing the presence of the rare migrant bat."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

And he has been patrolling the skies and the lawns since 2008, ruling the roost at the centuries old site.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

They could roost like vultures in the trees, birds that bring the famine of grief into unprepared homes.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The development is expected to displace 130 bat roosts but Reform UK county councillor, Vernon Smith, said he was astonished by the cost of the project.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

His team has closely monitored this elusive forest-dwelling species using "smart" roosts equipped with antennas to detect implanted microchips in the bats.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025

"Protecting these maternity roosts, or promoting them where they do not yet exist, is an important part of conservation."

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

At dusk, hundreds of wild parrots, some in large flocks, some singly or in pairs, approach from all directions, squawking loudly and circling overhead before settling on a variety of roosts.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 13, 2023

We found the lake again just as the sun was setting and bats were screeching out of their hidden roosts.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

To test the method, the team examined hundreds of tiny fossil bones left behind by owls that once roosted inside the cave.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

Colorful birds roosted on tangled branches and trunks, and small paths under the green and occasionally yellow leaves beckoned us to explore.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2024

The team found the chimps were hardly alone in feeding on the guano, which came from a colony of Noack’s roundleaf bat that roosted in the tree.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2024

Many of these were condors that had roosted in Arizona’s Vermilion Cliffs, the same place where captive-bred birds were first released in 1996.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 29, 2023

The parrots roosted on the shoulders of the Athena Parthenos.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Chicken thighs are roosting in recipes from high-end wellness resorts for top spenders and in the grocery carts of average consumers who are increasingly steering toward poultry because of record-high beef prices in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

The falconer says the hawk is trained not to attack pigeons or gulls but will instead scare them into roosting and nesting elsewhere.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

Expect to see and hear more chickens roosting in the next four years.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

And as part of the toll lane, they have requested Caltrans create a plan that would ensure the bats aren’t disturbed going forward, especially in their roosting season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

He pointed to the woman with the shaved head and the paper birds roosting on her shoulders.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill