Game-bird synonyms

Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.

A bird of family Phasianidae, often hunted for food.

Any of a family (Tetraonidae) of gallinaceous game birds with a round, plump body, feathered legs, feather-covered nostrils, and mottled feathers, as the ruffed grouse or sage grouse

partridge

Any of several game birds, such as the ruffed grouse or the bobwhite, similar to a partridge.

quail

Any of various similar or related birds of the Americas, such as the bobwhite or the California quail.

wild-turkey

A large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, native to North America.

plover

Any of a worldwide family (Charadriidae) of shorebirds, having a short tail, long, pointed wings, a short, stout beak, and, usually, brown or gray feathers

snipe

(By extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle.

woodcock

A migratory European shorebird (Scolopax rusticola) with short legs and a long bill, of the same family (Scolopacidae) as snipe: it is hunted as game

curlew

Any of several brownish, long-legged shorebirds of the genus Numenius, having long, slender, downward-curving bills.

sandpiper

Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.

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