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

When they had left it behind them the lane of water was empty except for one small dark patch upon it, and the clamor of the wildfowl was dying away.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold