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 parliamentary petition was launched by Danni Rogers from Camberley in Surrey, who is a volunteer at Shepperton Swan Sanctuary, following fatal attacks on wildfowl.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025
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
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
We have obtained but little here except water, a tolerable supply of rock cod, some ptarmigan hares, wildfowl, and a few items of stores.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock
