Definition of "waterfowl" []

• A water bird, especially a swimming bird. (noun)
• Swimming game birds, such as ducks and geese, considered as a group. (noun)

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• "This whole lead thing (excluding lead shot use in waterfowl hunting) really is a somewhat sad current state of affairs."
• "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."
• "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."