rookery

In winter rooks roost together in large numbers, and the roost may or may not be a rookery, but almost daily the local residents pay visits to the nesting trees, and about this time often begin playing at nest-building.

Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery.

The Flower and Dean St rookery had been home to many of those who lived at least partly by street crime.