Synonyms for game bird


Grammar : Noun

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Définition of game bird

  • noun hunted bird
Example sentences :
  • Preserve and mount the skin of a game bird, or animal, killed in season.
  • Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
  • "I shouldn't care to be a game bird," Turkey Proudfoot remarked.
  • Extract from : « The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot » by Arthur Scott Bailey
  • The Mongolian pheasant as a game bird has his merits and demerits.
  • Extract from : « Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast » by Harry Thom Payne
  • It builds its nest on the ground and is a game bird popular with the sportsman.
  • Extract from : « Endurance Test » by Alan Douglas
  • There is something in a game bird over and above its pound of flesh.
  • Extract from : « Our Vanishing Wild Life » by William T. Hornaday
  • But give the valley quail cover in which to hide and it can and will out-hide any game bird except the Montezuma quail of Mexico.
  • Extract from : « Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast » by Harry Thom Payne
  • It is as big as a pheasant, and is known as the Griff's pheasant because new arrivals in India sometimes shoot it as a game bird.
  • Extract from : « Birds of the Indian Hills » by Douglas Dewar
  • The quail is about the only game bird that the cat affects seriously, and to it the cat is very destructive.
  • Extract from : « Our Vanishing Wild Life » by William T. Hornaday
  • Thad dropped down beside the telltale feathers that marked the end of a game bird, and seemed to be examining the ground.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge » by Herbert Carter
  • Then the hunters made the plea that the meadow lark was really a game bird and that they ought to be allowed to shoot it.
  • Extract from : « Conservation Reader » by Harold W. Fairbanks

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