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plural wildfowls or wildfowl
Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans. quotations examples
[…] Whoso seeks an audit herePropitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.
1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books, London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168
In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.
1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, page 81
Waterfowl. examples
third-person singular simple present wildfowls, present participle wildfowling, simple past and past participle wildfowled
To hunt wildfowl. quotations examples
The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.
2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 220b