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In the wild, influenza viruses generally spread among migratory waterfowls, such as ducks and geese.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2024

In fact, fast-swimming marine mammals and waterfowls tend to forgo drag-based thrust in favor of lift-based thrust, another propulsion system.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024

The buffer of plants will discourages waterfowls, which prefer open grassy areas and succulent lawns, according to the public-health department.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2021

Here are also sea- or waterfowls, as men-of-war-birds, boobies, fishing-hawks, herons, galdens, crab-catchers, etc.

From A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William

For many years the tops of immense trees could be seen in the water by boatmen as they hunted the waterfowls or cast line for the fish with which it abounds.

From Stories of Old Kentucky by Purcell, Martha Grassham