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Definition of Heronries
1. heronry [n] - See also: heronry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heronries
Literary usage of Heronries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Architecture of Birds by James Rennie (1833)
"In order to enhance the merit of these French heronries, he undertakes to assert
that they were unknown to the ancients, because they are not mentioned in ..."
2. The Bird by Jules Michelet (1869)
"THE heronries OF AMERICA WILSON, THE ORNITHOLOGIST. THE decay of the heron is
less perceptible in America. He is not so frequently hunted. ..."
3. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1896)
"cruel, by land or sea, and the starving pups of St. Paul Island, like the dying
young birds of Florida heronries, are entitled to our active sympathy. ..."
4. Ornamental, Aquatic, and Domestic Fowl, and Game Birds: Their Importation by James Joseph Nolan (1850)
"At present, in consequence of the discontinuance of hawking, little attention is
paid to the protection of heronries, though none of the old statutes ..."
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