Waterfowl synonyms

wô'tər-foul', wŏt'ər-

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wild-duck
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water bird
Any swimming or wading bird
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wild-goose
Any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly.
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wild game
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teal
A moderate or dark bluish green to greenish blue.
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bird (related)
A small game bird
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waterbird
A swimming or wading bird.
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game-bird
Attributive form of game bird
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brant
Any of a genus (Branta) of wild geese of Europe and North America, including the Canada goose and the barnacle goose; esp., a species (B. bernicla) found chiefly in the E U.S. and N Canada
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mallard
A common and widespread dabbling duck, Anas platyrhynchos, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.
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snipe
Any of various shorebirds (family Scolopacidae) with a long, slender, flexible bill used in probing for food, esp. a genus (Gallinago) living chiefly in marshy places
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wildfowl (related)
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seabird (related)
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ground-nesting (related)
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shorebirds (related)
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wader (related)
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over-wintering (related)
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salmonids (related)
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  • Waterfowl are numerous and the forests of the warm valleys are filled with song-birds and birds of beautiful plumage.

  • Waders and waterfowl are far less abundant, and those occurring are nearly all migratory forms which visit the peninsula of India - the only important exception being two kinds of solitary snipe and the red-billed curlew.

  • Southward, the Danube encircles a vast fen, tenanted only by waterfowl and herds of half-wild swine, while the plain which extends to the north-east and east only grows fertile at some distance inland.

  • The reeds are cover for waterfowl of various kinds, which the traveller sees in great numbers, and wild boars are found in the marshes to the south.

  • Birds are very numerous, including no fewer than 4 varieties of crows, 5 of warblers, 7 of woodpeckers, 8 of buntings, 4 of falcons, and 5 of eagles; while among the hosts of waterfowl which people the marshes of the Danube are 9 varieties of ducks, and 4 of rails.

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