Definitions
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- n. A substance used to kill birds
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The killing or slaughter of birds.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The avicide, called Starlicide causes "irreversible kidney and heart damage" says APHIS.
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This might have been the most dramatic example of avicide.
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The USDA's Wildlife Services Program used an avicide poison to cull a group of 5,000 birds that were defecating on a farmer's cattle feed.
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The USDA's Wildlife Services Program, which contracts with farmers for bird control, said it used an avicide poison called DRC-1339 to cull a roost of 5,000 birds that were defecating on a farmer's cattle feed across the state line in Nebraska.
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The fact that ornithological experts had initially disagreed on the cause - some blamed violent weather, others suspected deliberate killing by poison in an act of avicide - only fuelled the conviction that something was amiss.
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The most commonly used avicide, Avitrol, looks exactly like whole kernel corn and it will often attract and kill other species of birds as well as pigeons.
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