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[[File:2021-12 Amsterdam Island - Indian yellow-nosed albatross 14.jpg|thumb|Colonies of [[Indian yellow-nosed albatross|Indian yellow-nosed albatrosses]] on [[Amsterdam Island]]]] A '''rookery''' is a colony breeding [[Rook (bird)|rooks]], and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally [[gregarious]]<ref> {{Cite web
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}}</ref> of colony-forming [[seabird]]s, marine [[mammal]]s ([[true seal]]s
However, since rooks are found in Europe and Asia and are unlike herons, and corvids do not nest in large masses in the Western world, it is more fitting to refer to birds that nest with herons as nesting in a Heronry or seabirds or other birds nesting together in trees, cliffs, or on the ground as nesting in a breeding colony.
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