blacktail
Britishnoun
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Renamed Wind Wolves, it is now the largest privately owned nature preserve on the West Coast, where endangered kit foxes and leopard lizards thrive along with elk, blacktail deer, great horned owls and bobcats.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025
The program has since provided Meyer with hunts for whitetail, mule deer, blacktail deer, mountain lion, alligator, black bear and hogs.
From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2021
In 30 years of snake handling, Wyant has had “one and hopefully my only” venomous snake bite, incurred while trying to force-feed a sick blacktail rattler in 1992.
From Washington Times • Jun. 13, 2018
Every time I hiked through the scrub, road runners, fence lizards, kangaroo rats and blacktail jackrabbits skittered under the creosote bushes.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2017
Dixie was better than most, for she had ridden those rough mesas before and could drift off a ridge like a blacktail.
From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane
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