birdicide

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From bird +‎ -icide.

Noun[edit]

birdicide (uncountable)

  1. The act or practice of killing birds.
    • 2000, Evelyn H. Pollard, The Birds of My Parish:
      Nowadays one reads in the papers a great many letters from indignant naturalists complaining of the wanton extermination of thrushes and blackbirds, and the consequent plagues of beetles, caterpillars, and what not, and demanding the life of any gardener or farmer guilty of such birdicide.