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Where birds breed round New Yorker circles (7)

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I believe the answer is:

rookery

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'where birds breed' is the definition.
The answer is a location as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'round new yorker circles' is the wordplay.
'round' becomes 'o' (round can mean a round object).
'new' indicates anagramming the letters.
'circles' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'yorker' is an anagram of 'rokery'.
'o' inserted within 'rokery' is 'ROOKERY'.

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(Other definitions for rookery that I've seen before include "Lofty breeding-place" , "Breeding-place of birds, penguins, seals" , "Breeding colony of birds, also of seals or turtles" , "Colony of penguins or seals" , "Noisy bird colony" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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