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Wildfowl

noun

Flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food.

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"Wildfowl" Quotes from Famous Books

... way of soil and climate. The Normanthorpe roses, famous throughout the north of England, were as yet barely budding in the kindless wind; the blaze of early bulbs was over; but there were the curious alien trees, and the ornamental waters haunted by outlandish wildfowl, bred there on the same ...

— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung

... carried me, its single occupant, safely and comfortably twenty-six hundred miles, from Pittsburgh to Cedar Keys, still lives at West Creek, builds yachts as well as he does sneak-boxes, and puts to the blush younger gunners by the energy displayed and success attained in the vigorous pursuit of wildfowl shooting in the bays which fringe the coast of Ocean ...

— Four Months in a Sneak-Box • Nathaniel H. Bishop

... shimmering haze of heat which strikes our faces like the blast from a furnace. Rain falls, and within a few hours the air will be filled with the croaking of frogs and the cackling of ducks.* To my mind it is one of the most incomprehensible things in Nature that wildfowl (for not only ducks, but sometimes swans and geese are seen) know when and where ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

Words linked to "Wildfowl" : grouse, fowl, pheasant, bird, quail, partridge