A name for any bird regarded as a pest, especially the mynah.
we should breed more of these eagles to cull the flying cane toads
Example sentencesExamples
- Come to North Queensland and see for yourself what a pest these flying cane-toads really are.
- They are flying cane toads -- a menace and notoriously hard to foil.
- Australian beekeepers are forming an army of volunteers to do battle with what they call the flying cane toad.
- Come and have a field day shooting flying cane toads.
- The plane, in Madi's eyes, looked like a flying cane toad.
- The Common Myna is referred to by some people as a "flying cane toad" and its range is still on the increase.
- The flying cane toad is a disparaging name for the Indian myna bird, introduced into Australia in the 1860s.
- They are such a pest they've earned the name 'garbage birds' or 'flying cane toads'.