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white-tail

type of North American deer, 1872, from white (adj.) + tail (n.).

Usage examples of "white-tail".

Entering by canoe at Shark River, you would be among woodpeckers and mockingbirds, alligators and bullfrogs, garfish and bass, white-tailed deer and possibly otters.

Thanks to you, and to the studies of coyotes and white-tailed deer carried forward by your fellow wildlife biologists, we have a complete and detailed picture of the top two predators for this recovering habitat, together with their most important large prey species, over the past four years.

Whilst studying the fauna of the Russian Steppes, he once saw an eagle belonging to an altogether gregarious species (the white-tailed eagle, Haliactos albicilla) rising high in the air for half an hour it was describing its wide circles in silence when at once its piercing voice was heard.

Large flocks of pelicans and beauti us flew overhead, and many kinds of raptors, including d white-tailed eagles, honey buzzards, and hawklike hob r greater numbers of small birds hopping, flying, singing, heir brilliant colors: nightingales and warblers, blackcaps, red-breasted flycatchers, golden orioles, and many other ams were common in the delta, but the elusive, well marsh birds were heard more often than seen.

Yellowstone has lost all its wolves, mountain lions and white-tailed deer, and the numbers of beaver and bighorn sheep are greatly depleted.

Just then, a white-tailed buck crashed out of the cabbage palms and entered the path in front of the truck.

I saw great numbers of elk and white-tailed deer, some beaver, antelope, mule deer, and wolves, and one bear on this little river.

It was founded in 1923 and in less than half a century under the Park Service's stewardship lost seven species of mammal--the white-tailed jackrabbit, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, flying squirrel, beaver, red fox, and spotted skunk.

Officially it was now a private hunters’ retreat, patterned after Isle Royale farther north, but instead of real wolves tracking down moose, it was Weres sporting with white-tailed deer.

As I was coming up a long slope, the unlighted cabin off to my right, a white-tailed deer pranced over the brow of the hill and stood looking around.

I understand the park is noted for its elk herds and its white-tailed deer.

Then we broke out into meadowland and ranch country and sunshine again, turned off the highway and crossed the river on a planked log bridge, and began climbing on a dirt road through hills and lodgepole pine and scrub brush, where white-tailed deer sprang in a flick of the eye back into the dense cover of the woods.

He startled a little group of white-tailed deer bedded down on the hillside and heard them bound away, making a lot of noise in the dry leaves.

Through the wispy fog at dawn they'd seen a herd of white-tailed deer and a red fox.

They were white-tailed deer probably headed for our pasture pond where it extended twenty feet or so beyond the fence.