The forests supported tigers, elephants, wild boar, oxen, and deer, as well as wildfowl. |
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Their account of their explorations, which were of a place that was cool and teeming with game and wildfowl, stoked the interest of the boss. |
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Many thousands of wintering wildfowl feed and roost among the country's estuaries and salt marshes. |
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Deer, rabbits, partridges, pheasants, wildfowl and fish were tithable by special custom only. |
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The result will be about 10 acres of open water throughout the year while reed beds and wet grasslands will be planted to attract wildfowl. |
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Walkers will be on the lookout for birds such as short-eared owls, winter wildfowl and the elusive hen harrier. |
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It is known as a wintering site for whooper swans, which arrive from Iceland, and wildfowl such as widgeon, teal and mallard. |
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This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl. |
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The survey was carried out by an organisation called Duck Density with the help of volunteers who kept a tally of wildfowl. |
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In 1999 we treated the western end of Fairburn Ings with barley straw and numbers of wildfowl have increased threefold since that time. |
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Ruddy ducks, which many say are not edible, were brought into Britain from American in 1950 and escaped into the wild from wildfowl collections. |
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Where possible the river is now allowed to flood in winter, creating water meadows that attract many different wildfowl. |
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They will be on the lookout for birds such as short-eared owls, a variety of winter wildfowl and, hopefully, Bowland's elusive hen harriers. |
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Migratory wildfowl, notably wild ducks, are carriers of the viruses, but are unlikely to develop an infection. |
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Some of the wildfowl known as ruddy ducks tend to fly to Spain for the winter and then stay on for the spring mating season. |
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The water park is a nationally important area for over-wintering wildfowl. |
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The temperature had dropped dramatically, and he was pleased to be able to get a good blaze going before setting to work plucking and preparing his wildfowl. |
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An ancient decoy pond, originally created to lure wildfowl and deer for the abbot to hunt is being restored, as is the original wooden deer fence. |
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No wonder the North Kent Marshes is the winter home of an estimated 200,000 wildfowl and waders and that its biodiversity is regarded as being of international importance. |
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The estuaries and salt marshes of the Solway Firth, in southwest Scotland, are feeding and roosting grounds for many thousands of wintering wildfowl. |
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But their keeper, Malcolm Kerr, who has looked after the wildfowl on the lake for nearly a quarter of a century, is more cynical. |
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In the tropical forest, wildfowl, peacocks, and silver pheasants are common. |
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The wildfowl counts of the International Wildfowl Research Bureau are run as a coordinated international effort throughout western Europe. |
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Landscapes could be characterized according to the habitats suitable for the various groups of wildfowl at various times in the annual cycle. |
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The marshes and aquatic herb beds in the sector are very popular during the spring and fall wildfowl migrations. |
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The health risk associated with eating wildfowl depends on several factors. |
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The St. Lawrence's main wildfowl hunting grounds are located between Québec City and Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. |
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It's home to numerous birds and wildfowl as well as fish, which inhabit it throughout the year. |
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The Norfolk coast, renowned for its wealth of wintering wildfowl and waders, continues to attract parties of ever-elusive and enigmatic shorelarks. |
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In addition, I have several subsidiary areas of interest, including, not surprisingly, wildfowl, and also mountaineering and political biographies. |
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If oil entered the lagoons, damage to fish spawning grounds, wildfowl habitat and local commercial and subsistence enterprises could be, literally, incalculable. |
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The ducks are among hundreds of wildfowl, including moorhens, coots and Canada geese based at the university, which is famed for its natural habitat. |
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Probably in October, the Pilgrims met their Wampanoag neighbors for three days of feasting on wildfowl and venison. |
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Part of the bay is a nature reserve, with seashore habitats including mudflats and salt marsh with migrating waders and wildfowl. |
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The mudflats are important feeding areas for a variety of wading birds and wildfowl. |
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No risk is associated with the consumption of wildfowl meat but caution is advised because of the need to remove lead shot before the meat is eaten. |
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Of all the 'watches, spring is best, with its frolicking otter babies, lusty wildfowl and eager hatchlings trampling one another for a gobful of worm. |
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The area is already regionally important for overwintering wildfowl such as pochards, tufted ducks and smews. |
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Consequences on biodiversity and the economy in a fresh water environment Persistently low water levels lead to the drying up of wetlands, which in turn impairs reproduction and growth in several fish and wildfowl species. |
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We have to be very careful where contact between humans and wildfowl is concerned, but at the same time we need to make sure that the issue does not become a cheap excuse for banning waterbird hunting. |
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Concerned that boatmen might poach his game and wildfowl, Brooke did not want the canal to pass through his land. |
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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. |
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It also planted native trees and shrubs beside these enhancements to improve habitat quality and encourage use by wildfowl, wading birds, semiaquatic mammals, amphibians and forage fish. |
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More than fifty years of research in over twenty countries have shown that the ingestion of lead pellets by wildfowl leads to significant mortality from lead poisoning. |
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This is a prime wildfowl observation location in the spring and the fall, and is also the main public access point on the north shore of the Île d'Orléans. |
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I have just got time for one question: if low pathogen avian flu is also infectious and can mutate, how can we be certain that the import of infected wildfowl and domestic poultry is really under control? |
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Over 10,000 wildfowl and 20,000 waders winter on the estuary. |
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The estuary is a major wildlife area and one of the most important estuaries in Britain, amongst the most important in Europe for its populations of waders and wildfowl. |
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Listen out for the residents such as Cetti's warblers and water rails and see overwintering wildfowl such as tufted duck, pochard, gadwall and goldeneye. |
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The reservoir is one of the best birdspotting sites in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is home to wildfowl such as Eurasian wigeon, teal, greylag geese and Canada geese. |
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One of the oldest local reserves in the county, built from reclaimed land in 1771, it provides an important habitat for migratory wildfowl and waders. |
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A new study combines GPS tracking data of four species of wildfowl with genetic analysis of the virus and finds that H5N1 spreads along migratory flyways. |
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Hodbarrow is renowned for large numbers of wildfowl during the winter. |
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