Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A waterbird, especially a swimming bird.
- noun Swimming game birds, such as ducks and geese, considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
water-birds . - noun In a restricted sense, swimming birds, especially those which, as the Anseres, are used for food or for any reason engage the attention of sportsmen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers, lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used also collectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
birds , such asducks ,geese andswans , that spend most of their non-flying time onwater ; especially those of thefamily Anatidae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun freshwater aquatic bird
Etymologies
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Examples
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Personally, I begin waterfowl hunting, and me and my buddies put on a coyote hunt in January.
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I have a pointing lab and she is great in waterfowl and upland. if you interested ill give you the name and info of the breeder i bought her form.
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Right when I started to take an interest in waterfowl hunting is when they mandated steel for waterfowl and it stopped me in my tracks.
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It has been estimated that Canada and the USA add up to 3 1/2 million waterfowl lost every season because of steel shot resulting in waterfowl flying off and dying later.
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Right when I started to take an interest in waterfowl hunting is when they mandated steel for waterfowl and it stopped me in my tracks.
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You can obviously hunt waterfowl from a boat, but the motor has to be off, and your forward momentum from the motor has to have stopped.
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You can obviously hunt waterfowl from a boat, but the motor has to be off, and your forward momentum from the motor has to have stopped.
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This whole lead thing (excluding lead shot use in waterfowl hunting) really is a somewhat sad current state of affairs.
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This whole lead thing (excluding lead shot use in waterfowl hunting) really is a somewhat sad current state of affairs.
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It has been estimated that Canada and the USA add up to 3 1/2 million waterfowl lost every season because of steel shot resulting in waterfowl flying off and dying later.
bilby commented on the word waterfowl
Might you have a spare pond, err, list, for waterfowl, reesetee?
November 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word waterfowl
Not at present. But you never know what'll be next. I may some day deconstruct my enormous mega-lists and sort out by type. :-)
November 10, 2008