Targets of Varmint Hunting
The term varmint is a US colloquial term for vermin, though it refers more specifically to mammal or bird pests, including:
- predators, such as coyotes, wolves, foxes, or feral dogs, which can kill farm animals
- rodents, such as rats, prairie dogs, squirrels, rabbits, and groundhogs, that can damage cropland or pastures or carry disease
- invasive species, such as starlings, that are displacing desirable native species
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Famous quotes containing the word hunting:
“He is the old hunting dog of the sea
who in the morning will rise from it
and be undrowned
and they will take his perfect green body
and paint it red.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)