wildfowl
- n flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food
- And since the 1960s, their fears have been focused on the H5N1 virus, a bird pathogen that is generally harmless in its host species (ducks and other wildfowl) but extremely deadly .
- Unless we have what might be called a moratorium on wildfowl shooting in this year of crisis I am afraid the ducks will go down into extinction.
- Many scientists believe that migratory wildfowl, which can carry numerous viruses without being infected, were most likely to blame for the initial spreading of the disease.