How To Use Roost In A Sentence

And having left the Broncos a couple of seasons back, next year he is returning to the Broncos, and his departure will be unlamented in Roosters territory.
By night they roost in the gently flowing shallows of the Platte, shin-deep in cool water, or else on sandbars, giving them warning against any predator that might come splashing out.
Edward is a perpetual student, it would seem, born in the year of the rooster!
Our second annual spring trip to the Upper Catch and Release Area of the Miller's River, my father caught this nice brown trout, and caught flak from the elitists because he was using the fly rod with a spinning reel and rooster tail and catching fish, while the elitist fly fishers were getting skunked all morning. Field & Stream
Sydney Roosters utility forward Michael Crocker pressed his claims for Test selection with two of the Kangaroos' six tries tries.

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Before anyone else could say anything, the door burst open and the birds all screeched and flew to the top of the roost.
All day the eye of the sky bulges, lidless and forgiving until darkness comes to roost undisturbed in its lashes.
Papa couldn't butcher their milk cow and he had to keep the surviving roosters and hens to build a new flock in the new year.
The chickens are now coming home to roost. The Sun
Our turkeys roost on our roof - and we do see tracks - huge ones!
As I am aware that the jack hammers from the next block all last summer were intrusive and you know darn well the birds that roosted in the abandoned former furniture factory trees this past year nearly drove me out of my mind - before I decided to set off cohetes during the day and early evening to run them off, which worked, but drives your dogs crazy for which I am very sorry. Sound ordinance in ajijic?
Cockfighting (two roosters battling each other in a ring) commands a fanatical following.
Those koa trees will do more than just provide roosting sites for birds, they'll also help capture moisture, raising the air temperature near them by as much as 5 degrees.
Its dense growth provides nesting places for a range of bird life as well as warm cover in winter or roosting small birds.
Minnesota birds though seem to add some feathers when the temps go sub-zero and the roosters left know the sounds and sights of hunters. Shotgun Shell Review: A First Look at Federal's New Prairie Storm Pheasant Loads
At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest.
There's a bit of nudging and jostling while they get comfortable on their roost, but then suddenly the twittering stops as though a conductor drops his baton after the final note, then silence.
The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago. Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified
This outfit is also ideal for school bonito, skipjack, average sized dorado, roosterfish and needlefish.
In my last entry I believe I wrote somthing to the like of being woken up at 4 cuz it sounds like the rooster is at my window. Archive 2008-08-01
Soil can be seeded within monoculture grass, or trees can be planted widely apart so that they do not become roosts for mynas and starlings.
Come a ‘chaste art festival’, then the distemper art rules the roost in major spots.
Animated figures of women washed clothes, babies bawled, roosters crowed, blacksmiths worked at their forges.
The great cave behind the falls is the roosting place of hundreds of swifts; at evening they dart in and out of the gorge before braving the torrent to spend the night behind Kaieteur's curtain.
If bird names are anything to go by, the "bowwow" theory (perhaps we should call it the "tweet-tweet" theory) rules the roost, since many birds are named for their songs or calls. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 3
I open the window of my study and see the Painted bat, roosting in the foliage of the monstera creeper, is already asleep after a night's wandering, covering its body with its bright red and black wings.
I've seen many a young dominick rooster, but I never saw one with finer feathers than yours. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett
While Rooster starts with a "narrative of Americana and the South," it blends in other flavors from the surrounding neighborhoods. Jack Hidary: Marcus Samuelsson Previews the Red Rooster -- Interview With the Chef
Around sunrise, the concentration of geese we'd hoped would keep our barrels warm lifted off its roost and, in steady waves, flew away.
Fifteen species of neotropical and three species of Paleotropical bats are known either to roost. in or to make tents in over 80 species of vascular plants.
A bright half-moon clung to the side of the main house like something unfinished, and Neal could see the fever trees that lined the drive, thick with roosting vultures, bald-headed and silent, and the rolling tilt of the hills that clustered on the horizon and then dropped off into Ngorongoro. The Laugh
Likewise in the evening just after sunset, there is a red afterglow in the west, birds begin to roost for the night, lovers meet to whisper sweet nothings to each other and we can imagine vampires might be stirring from their sleep.
For example, a rooster's comb contains a hyaluronic acid that can be injected into your face to smooth those wrinkles.
The young people, they have no religion, and the yahoos are coming home to roost.
Indeed there are fairly stable, fairly democratic countries in asia where buckshee rules the roost. David Davis: Revived Speculation About Grasp of Reality
They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks.
In daytime they roost on a branch, their eyes closed. Times, Sunday Times
Among the little stores, Meia Tigela and Verde Inveja showcase Portuguese products, from lavender or cherry-scented Confiança soaps, to strong red wines from the banks of the Douro river and colorful clay figures of saints, soldiers and roosters made in the nearby town of Barcelos. Within Portugal's Cradle
At dawn for the past two mornings, great scraggly flocks of rooks mixed with a few jackdaws pour over our base moving from their roosts to the freshly plowed fields.
MIAMI -- Roosters on the loose in South Florida have been giving some residents what they call grating, early morning On Camera: TV Reporter Catches Chicken "Our kids are in college now. Channel3000.com - Local News
The Hacienda La Pacifica resort complex, adjacent to these preserves, is popular with birders for the natural habitat along the river right on its grounds, where boat-billed herons come to roost.
The sun's light stretched across he sleepy town, causing a few roosters to crow.
We had a chihuahua mix that ruled the roost over our English pointers, a German shorthair, and a doberman, among other. Chihuahua vs. Cougar
But choppy waters subside, and the sharks and the little fishes and the roosters should be aware of this.
The peacock, together with a peahen, flew into Peasehill Close last July and quickly took to roosting on the tops of greenhouses and garages.
She had walked up with a Mr. Crowe, from Peterborough, a young, brisk-looking farmer, in breeches and top-boots, just out from the old country, who, naturally enough, thought he would like to roost among the woods. Roughing It in the Bush
Old World sparrows are highly gregarious; they often roost and breed communally and form feeding flocks.
Energy expenditure and allocation are determined using a combination of techniques, including body composition analysis (using extraction methods, calorimetry, and TOBEC), roosting metabolism (using standard respirometry), field metabolic rates and water flux (using doubly-labeled water), and time-activity budgets (using radiotelemetry, video monitoring, and direct observation). Contributor: Thomas Kunz
It was the new, assertive influence of the sixties which saw the first signs that the chickens of irregular warfare might come home to roost. The Bullet Catchers
Beaming the sound of the birds' natural predators, such as geese or owls, at their roosts scares the canaries away from the power lines.
To the left (the statues on the right we have already seen on the previous picture to the left) on the baldachin St. Vitus (look sharply for his rooster) and on the volute St. Achatius (with Cross and crown of thorns). Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
AND so the chickens came home to roost. The Sun
The Senate version would outlaw the interstate shipping of dogs or roosters for the purpose of fighting.
Austin, Texas-based funk-rock soul octette Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears are Black Joe Lewis, Sugarfoot Watkins, Big Show Varley, Wild Bill, Rooster Andrews, Slyder, McKnight (a.k.a. The Night Train), Zach Erlich, and Sleepy Ramirez. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-One
Unlike the activities of the woodpeckers, a raccoon that denned in a hollow on the Indiana myotis roost tree made clear attempts to capture bats as they exited the roost.
Following heavy snow extensive literature refers to them roosting in pits in the snow, each bird burrowing down until no longer visible by rotating the body, assisted with wing movements.
Soon, gris-gris in the form of roosters' heads began to appear on his doorstep.
They can be taken on a variety of plugs, softbaits and with the long wand on a fly, after teasing with a surface popper or the like; but the key to the rooster's soul is livebait.
Behind them a great roostertail foams erect against the rain. Gravity's Rainbow
We hope the future will be one of plentiful, continuous, and widespread resources and undisturbed roosts for the welfare of our shared bat species, ecosystems, and ecological processes.
The loony rooster next door insists on crowing at all hours.
It led straight to the bullbrier thicket where the old beech partridge roosted. Secret of the Woods
Treat roosts, walls, litter, and equipment by painting, spraying, or dusting.
I chalked it up to an excess of vital spirit from the new rooster, Cazimir, a white Araucana, just coming into his powers. The H.D. Chronicles, chapter 1
Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn is a shambling wreck of a man: a grizzled veteran of a few too many shootouts, he wears a black patch over one eye and has the unmistakable whiff of stale whiskey about him.
The stocky, pot-bellied man who wears a wide-brimmed hat made of palm leaves, admits cockfighting is brutal but says the roosters are born to fight.
An anthemic song with a big chorus, and an infectious spring in its step, the number demonstrated Rooster's readiness to have fun with a big riff.
I saw many other birds in my month on Fair Isle, far rarer ones: I found a woodchat shrike, a streaky youngster with a grownup hooked bill, that should have been on the other side of Europe; I became adept at listening for the soft calls of common rosefinches, the blandest of birds with the beadiest of eyes; I knew where a buff-breasted sandpiper blown from North America roosted. A Year on the Wing
Wild turkeys, at least, have to fly up trees to roost. Times, Sunday Times
Small coincidence that the rooster is a popular bird (symbol) in Mexico. Foot on your neck...
Goin 'down to the _encinal_ to roost," explained Moore. Oh, You Tex!
Troostite is of doubtful composition, but possibly is an unstable mixture of untransformed martensite with sorbite. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
Vandals have destroyed entire colonies in minutes, and urban expansion has eliminated thousands of natural roosts in caves and forests.
It was this atmosphere that formed the perfect background to a display of starlings gathering at their night-time roost.
• Things are hotting up on the mayoral trail in London, where Boris Johnson rules the roost and Ken Livingstone will fight Oona King for the right to try to depose the Tory champion. Diary
Interestingly the term cocking a gun comes from flintlock muskets of 17th century, the hammer was very ornate and resembled a rooster (a cock). Purplecigar Diary Entry
We don't recommend roosters for backyard beginners - they are loud and aggressive, and the hens will lay better without them.
Back home in some Indian villages and even in the city, the night heron, the pond heron and the egret roost habitually amid the thick foliage of the mango, the tamarind and the neem in yards around houses.
This, I think, is the meaning of Rooster's pickelhaube. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
Although bats roost upside down, they are incapable of hovering in this position. Times, Sunday Times
Just before sunset, flocks of the red birds gather to roost in the mangrove trees transforming green bush to a glowing red.
Besides a house and a tool shed, the other building on their small acreage was a chicken coop where the egg-laying hens roosted.
Setting up close to the roost is perfectly ethical. Would you consider hunting under a turkey roost unethical?
Four basic dove-hunting options are available: grain fields, roost brush, water holes and pass shoots.
That he is sometimes called "rooster" made me think less of cock, than of Jeff Bridges' character in True Grit, Rooster Coburn. Regina Weinreich: Jerusalem on Broadway: No Trip to the Holy Land
The eagles tend to roost in huge ponderosas in northeast-facing canyons among the hills that dot Wyoming's mile-high prairies.
Akbar, a two-and-a-half-year old Leghorn rooster seems to be doing his best to mimic his master.
Liverpool ruled the roost in English football for a decade.
These bats roost, head-up, inside the smooth tubes formed as young banana or heliconia leaves unfurl.
Nest boxes with flip-up roosts that double as door blockers are good, as they allow you to shut the girls out when egg-laying is done for the day, preventing the nests from getting soiled by sleeping hens or being taken over by broody hens.
His chickens have come home to roost. Times, Sunday Times
France, which had preserved the antique ceremonies of the worship of Isis, the sistrum, the cymbals, the dance of Isis, the prophesying, and the art of robbing hen-roosts. A Philosophical Dictionary
An old farmer raises a few chickens and pigs and has a cow or two but his rooster is getting old. Amateur Hour
The estuaries and salt marshes of the Solway Firth, in southwest Scotland, are feeding and roosting grounds for many thousands of wintering wildfowl.
But Mr Norman rules the roost in the film field with a regular 4 million audience, twice the weekly cinema audience.
The great flocks of starlings going to roost together have now gone from the sky. Times, Sunday Times
In these troubled times will his chickens come home to roost? Times, Sunday Times
More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, cattle and little egrets, little stints, common sandpipers, pond herons and little winged plovers.
We also use colorful signs, a banner with a rooster on it, old wooden chicken crates and egg baskets - anything we can think of to draw people in.
The Sydney Roosters forward spent most of the first half in the dressing room nursing a head injury and afterwards made a veiled reference to retribution at the KC Stadium.
The rooster crowed, as if it wanted more scraps of food to eat.
A 25-1 shot when he beat Rooster Booster last year, Hardy Eustace is quoted at 3-1 this time and looks to have an outstanding chance of retaining his crown.
Then Johnny "Rooster" Byron Mr. Rylance emerges from the trailer, does a line of coke, smokes a joint, downs more alcohol than any mortal could ever consume; you get the picture of one unsavory dude who will and does imbibe anything. Regina Weinreich: Jerusalem on Broadway: No Trip to the Holy Land
He sold his business and, with his three sons and then wife, packed up a trailer filled with possessions - and 32 roosters and three brood hens - and headed for Oklahoma.
Cracids are arboreal birds, nesting, roosting and foraging in the trees.
By now she knew that each thunderous outburst of the volcano launched a dark roostertail of ash out from the central column, feathering the sky with falling cinders and bombs. Firestorm
The cold gray light of early dawn had given place to saffron, and the first drowsy challenge from the henroost had been shrilly answered from far and near, when old man Jerry awoke from his nap in the chimney corner, and, finding himself chilled through all his old, rheumatic bones, bent over the dying embers, pushed together the blackened and half-burned "chunks," and blew them until they glowed. Plantation Sketches
Chickens are coming home to roost and the problem won't go away. Times, Sunday Times
To illustrate: the injection of estrogens will caponize a rooster just as castration (removal of androgens) will. The Human Brain
They forage in bluebell woods by day and roost in trees at night, protected from predators by a pair of collie dogs. Times, Sunday Times
The chickens are now coming home to roost. The Sun
Thanks to organized protest, general public outcry, and the intervention of both the Audubon Society and the NYC Parks Department, Pale Male and Lola can again roost in peace. Archive 2004-12-01
The dominant garlic pear tree is a favored roost of the magnificent frigatebird Fregata magnificens, the most abundant seabird on the island (11,800 birds in 2001-2002) and of brown pelicans (200) and red-footed boobies Sula sula rubripes (200 birds). Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
These liabilities are still coming home to roost. Times, Sunday Times
A bald eagle glides by en route to its evening roost on the branch of a cottonwood tree.
Old stories that are often scorned as pure figments of the imagination have a habit of coming home to roost.
He spread his wings and flew to a tree, roosting on a branch.
Oils produced in the Chianti Classico region of Tuscany have a new label of distinction: a black rooster, also seen on wine labels.
The eagles tend to roost in huge ponderosas in northeast-facing canyons among the hills that dot Wyoming's mile-high prairies.
On some occasions anis also use tamarin trees to roost or rest during the heat.
In the ordinary practice of hardening steels, the quenching is not so drastic, and the transformation of austenite back to ferrite and cementite is more or less completely effected, giving rise to certain transitory forms which are known as "martensite," "troostite," "sorbite," and finally, pearlite. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
A gaggle of ibis roosting in a nearby tree hooted fearfully.
Hate is manifested in a whole range of insults in football and nobody is spared in an arena where the lowest common denominator rules the roost.
Finally a rooster flew to the top and decided to crow around midnight.
As dawn approaches and the light level rises, you will hear roosters crowing and the night ambient sounds will die away.
Several days after, the man who was "personated" appeared in Aroostook, alive and well, never having been attacked with the cholera. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
A new wave of face-smoothing shots derived from a variety of substances, including rooster combs and newborn foreskin, are expected to hit the market soon.
They roost at night in reedy or marshy areas near Lake Chapala or irrigation ditches. One for the birds in Ajijic, Mexico
Near the headwaters, there's a necklace of four soft-bottomed ponds where egrets stand watch on the shore and owls roost beneath bridges.
Town clerk Graham Gittins said Chester City Council had halved the city's pigeon flock by introducing dovecotes in strategic areas and attracting birds to roost in them by providing food.
Giant lanterns in the shapes of roosters, fish and dragons illuminated the night of February 23, with families crowding into the City God Temple to see the lanterns, solve the lantern puzzles and burn incense.
Shadows fluttered against the sunset as a few late birds fluttered to their roosts in the trees.
An Indian cockfighting rooster appears to have taken deadly revenge on its trainer for forcing it back into the ring too soon, the Daily Mail of London reported.
Wattle, OT congenital cervical tragus, is a term coined by Clarke1 to describe an unusual skin appendage found on the neck analogous to growths on the dewlaps of birds (turkeys, roosters, etc).
Pádraig Murphy and Brian Murphy ruled the roost at midfield, while each of their forwards got their name on the scoresheet as they stampeded their way to glory.
Following sunrise comes the clanging sound of scores of church bells, coupled with the crow of roosters from the adjacent Moslem Quarter.
He struts around like a rooster in a hen house
Chickens of carpetbaggery let loose upon the South were coming home to roost at the North. Marse Henry : an autobiography,
But a string of federal arrests in Washington and Oregon last week should serve as notice to the organizers of rooster "derbies" across this country, authorities say. Cracking Down on Cockfighting
This past summer, a geezer friend of mine was railing at the current generation of hunters who roost in trees like so many spavined turkeys and rarely walk anywhere. Uncategorized Blog Posts
At the dam there are hundreds of woodswallows congregating for their drink and preparing to roost.
Broncos to slay the Knights, Warriors to desex the Panthers, Rabbitohs to continue their slightest dream against the Cowboys, Roosters to beat the Sharks as everyone else does at the moment, Sea Eagles to finally end the Bulldogs run towards the final 8, Storm to continue the Dragons slide down the 8, Raiders to pip the Titans in the cellar dweller battle and Tigers to keep running down the top 4 with a win over the Eels. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Why, this old fellow lives by petty larceny; he hasn't the dignity of a large thief: he is a filcher of caps and napkins from a washerwoman's basket; a robber of hen-roosts; a pocketer of tea-spoons! Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Table 2.2 Barn owl samples: nest site versus roost site.
Bats are generally faithful to their roosts and a colony may use the same site year after year.
Those chickens are now coming home to roost. Times, Sunday Times
When we first see the rooster, he's gargling some water, and he's bleary-eyed; obviously, he just got up after a long boozy night.
After a month she brought gifts for the old woman: hair ribbons, and a seedcake, and a black rooster. AMERICAN GODS
But it’s the do’s and don’ts he has to live with, not the news of the world with that rooster that goes scraw scraw in the movie house down the street. Underworld
The neutered rooster, called a capon, was also prized for its fat. Planet Malaysia
Those chickens are coming home to roost, of which more in a moment. Times, Sunday Times
He has spent a guinea already to induce them to clean up their uniforms, and it cost him five pounds to bail the cornettist out of gaol for roost robbing. The Melting of Molly
The birds roosted in contaminated buildings and then flew through holes in the roofs to a garden in a nearby village where they were fed by bird-lovers.
In January she had visited Slimbridge, the bird sanctuary on the Severn in Gloucestershire, to witness the famous flights of starlings that swarm there in their tens of thousands before roosting.
Animated figures of women washed clothes, babies bawled, roosters crowed, blacksmiths worked at their forges.
Holes in the canopy had left the roosting insects prey to the frosty nights.
After years of frenzied lending, their excesses came home to roost. Times, Sunday Times
At the ranch the roosters started crowing at 4am just a few feet from my head, shocking me to consciousness.
All the big trees that the bats are roosting on now are to be covered by nets to prevent birds from flying out of the new aviary.
Although bats roost upside down, they are incapable of hovering in this position. Times, Sunday Times
Her selfishness will come home to roost someday.
At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest.
Chickens of carpetbaggery let loose upon the South were coming home to roost at the Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography
They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks.
They have been caught in nets thrown over their roost trees and kept alive, injured or not, to be sold as fresh food. Times, Sunday Times
They are swift in flight, but are more commonly seen roosting or foraging on the ground.
There was the cackle of a hen which should have been roosting and the cooing of a dove in the cote. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
I asked Huda what the words meant and she turned and batted her kohl-ringed eyes at me and started to sing it everybody did that if you mentioned a song: the pretty girl gets up at dawn to bake bread; the rooster crows, cou cou, and the workers get ready to work. Day of Honey
As I write, the bilious countenance of a culprit is peeping through the iron grates of a window, who, may be, is atoning for having invaded a henroost or bagged an unsuspecting pig. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Before Pasteur, dreadful smells and miasmas ruled the roost, the only accepted causes of illness, while after Pasteur, disease was all down to germs.
There is also an interesting parallel between the two bands; Stones' vocalist Mick Jagger and Rooster's axeman Luck Potashnick both attended the London School of Economics.
Walking down what used to be bustling Ivegate, I saw all the white splodges on the flags and in my naivety thought they were the results of the flocks of starlings that used to roost in Bradford.
It's fortunate that they set up those pigeonholes because some of the pigeons have come home to roost.
With the Irish pack ruling the roost, and Scotland over-elaborating to a ridiculous degree on the few occasions they managed to get their hands on the ball, the young Irish backs began to look increasingly incisive.
And there will also be some surprises to delight spectators and usher the Year of the Rooster in true style. The Sun
You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition ; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.
But when the pressure rose, the number of insects declined dramatically and hardly any bats left their roost. Times, Sunday Times
By dawn, mysterious roosters would crow but never show themselves.
But Bronfman had always spoken with more eloquence than most high school dropouts, just as he had always been more combative than most prizefighters and cockier than most roosters. LAST CALL
Evening counts of bats leaving the roosts ranged from 4 to 120 bats (probably more than one species roosted together).
Big pods of roosterfish and Jacks, joined by snook from the lagoons where the crocodiles live, all join forces to slay the vast schools of anchovies which gather here at this time.
Cape parrots occur in the moist forests of the southern and eastern parts of South Africa and use yellow-wood trees as roosts, nesting space and as a food source.
Each of the three compartments contained either a chicken, a rooster or an egg.
They doused the boaters with spray from their rooster tails.
Energy expenditure and allocation are determined using a combination of techniques, including body composition analysis (using extraction methods, calorimetry, and TOBEC), roosting metabolism (using standard respirometry), field metabolic rates and water flux (using doubly-labeled water), and time-activity budgets (using radiotelemetry, video monitoring, and direct observation). Contributor: Thomas Kunz
The government has failed, police has failed, intelligence has failed and mobocracy is ruling the roost.
Birds come home to roost But back to the bird list. Times, Sunday Times
The rooster would have crowed, the donkey would have brayed.
To the left (the statues on the right we have already seen on the previous picture to the left) on the baldachin St. Vitus (look sharply for his rooster) and on the volute St. Achatius (with Cross and crown of thorns). Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
In both traditions the white rooster, which crows at dawn to dispel the darkness of night, is highly esteemed.
As it was dark, the storks were sleeping safely in their high roosting places on the tall pillars of the aqueduct.
The den contains a raggedy rug and two sketches Ty did himself of a beaver and a rooster.
They forage in bluebell woods by day and roost in trees at night, protected from predators by a pair of collie dogs. Times, Sunday Times
We transferred the birds to the second roosting aviary and we counted the number of unconsumed maggots left on the foraging platform.
Going to your hunting spot at dusk and waiting for them to gobble is called "roosting a turkey". Where to start?
Now, no rooster can fly upside down, no matter what else he can do, so that one came flippity-flop down into the water ker-splash-ker-sposh; and one more besides! Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble
These fights usually end up with the death of one of the roosters.
The surviving cartouche designs resemble a rooster and fragments of two so-called seahorses.
This group has a great diversity of roosting habits, including caves, hollow logs, tree branches, tunnels, and human houses.
Scratched and beplastered with mud, they crawled out in muck which gripped them to the knees, and roosted like buzzards upon the butt of a prostrate live-oak. Blackbeard: Buccaneer

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