The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word HERONRY
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More clues leading to the result HERONRY
- Birds’ breeding-place identified by woman in train?
- Writer James gets run over in colony of birds
- Praise as before all round concerning colony of birds
- King once keeping rook along with old birds together
- Place for waders and half of rods possessed by scientist
- King including rook and duck in place for breeding birds
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The straight part
We know that "birds together" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case birds together = heronry.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does HERONRY mean?
HERONRY noun- A breeding woodland for herons; a heron rookery.