Waterfowl hunting facts for kids

Waterfowl hunting (also called wildfowling or waterfowl shooting in Britain) is the act of hunting ducks, geese, or other waterfowl for food and sport. In many western countries, waterfowl hunting is illegal, and duck hunting is mostly an outdoor sporting activity.

Many types of ducks and geese share the same habitat, have overlapping or same hunting seasons, and are hunted the same. Thus it is possible to hunt different species of waterfowl in the same trip. Waterfowl can be hunted in crop fields where they eat, or, more often, on or near bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, sloughs, or oceanic coastlines.

Images for kids

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  Lov na race; čakališče na jezeru pri jami Lisišče (1759) by Franz Anton von Steinberg, which depicts waterfowl hunting

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  Three waterfowl hunters donned in camouflage and armed with shotguns.

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  An illustration entitled "Sea Duck Shooting Over Decoys" from Feathered game of the Northeast (1907).

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  A photograph of a waterfowl hunter launching his boat, circa 1900–1912

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  Snowden Slights 'the last of Yorkshire's Wildfowlers'

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  Ducks are illegally netted in this photograph taken in 1916 which was presented to the Canadian Conservation of Fish, Birds and Game Committee.

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  Retired professional baseball player Dazzy Vance hunting waterfowl on Crystal River in Florida which is on the edge of the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways.

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  Duck hunters in a hunting blind. Decoys are visible in the water to the right.

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  A duck hunter with two mallards and one redhead. A Labrador Retriever and duck decoys are visible in the background.

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  Waterfowl flyways of North America