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wildfowl

[wahyld-faul] / ˈwaɪldˌfaʊl /


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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

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

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

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 J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent


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