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  • Local environmental association Pro Hanhikivi, which is cooperating with other conservation groups as well as Greenpeace to oppose the reactor, says the peninsula is home to a variety of threatened and protected wildlife like the Siberian primrose, moor frogs and a bird called the black-tail godwit.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • Have I passed by the black-tail and the ‘thrush’, the sea-merle and the shadow of the sea?

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Determining the kill factor for black-tail deer in the Southwest.

    Aldo Leopold (Complete Bibliography) 2008

  • Have I passed by the black-tail and the ‘thrush’, the sea-merle and the shadow of the sea?

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Of all the large game we have ever had -- buffalo, antelope, black-tail deer, white-tail deer -- the mountain sheep is the most delicious.

    Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

  • At that little log hotel of ten or twelve rooms there were seven kinds of meat -- black-tail deer, white-tail deer, bear, grouse, prairie chicken, squirrels, and domestic fowl -- the latter still in possession of their heads.

    Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

  • Whenever Ted could be spared from the herd he and Stella and Hallie Croffut, and sometimes Ben or Kit, took long rides off the trail with their rifles, after a pronghorn or black-tail deer, and frequently they had venison for supper.

    Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur Edward C. Taylor

  • I started a bear from his bed but could not find him, and then found that the bear had started a large band of black-tail deer, which ran about a half a mile and then walked leisurely along, cropping the bunch grass here and there.

    The Sheep Eaters William Alonzo Allen

  • Suddenly I heard a crashing of bushes and a hundred yards above us a superb black-tail sprang into the water and swam for the east bank.

    A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

  • On the following evening his expedition was interfered with by the fact that earlier in the day Kiddie had stalked and killed a black-tail deer and needed Rube's help in carrying the carcass into camp and cutting it up for venison.

    Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

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