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

Ms Eaton said she believed the birds should only have been moved by an organisation with experience of handling and relocating wildfowl.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2022

Because of the flowering plant’s resemblance to the head of a crane, the colonists called the fruit “craneberries” and used it in sour sauces they served with wildfowl.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018

Higher concentrations of certain nitrogen isotopes are a sign of a diet rich in animals that have a relatively high place in the food web — such as wildfowl and freshwater fish.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2014

He could snare the myriad wildfowl, many of them no longer known in England, which haunted the fastnesses of the reeds as no other man could.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)