wildfowl
Example Sentences
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The 64-year-old has a particular penchant for wildfowl shooting in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
The Shaftesbury estate owns the lough bed and the soil, the banks, the rights to sand extraction and shooting licences for wildfowl.
From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023
Jim Edwards told the Toronto paper that his father had 20/20 eyesight and had been a crack marksman as a youth when he used to shoot duck and other wildfowl on the prairies of Saskatchewan.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2022
Bones of turtle, wildfowl and deer bones indicate good eating.
From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2020
Once now and then wildfowl come in countless numbers: it is said to be when they are driven south by severe weather.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
