Definitions
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- noun any kind of bird hunted for food or
sport .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Woodcock are beautiful birds and also my first gamebird as a young hunter.
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Woodcock are beautiful birds and also my first gamebird as a young hunter.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more popular gamebird than the ringneck pheasant.
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The pheasant's ubiquity is largely due to its popularity as a gamebird: millions of birds are reared in captivity each year, to be released in time for the start of the shooting season on 1 October.
Birdwatch: Pheasant 2011
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more popular gamebird than the ringneck pheasant.
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For example, would you support programs to boost dwindling native gamebird species like lesser prairie chickens even at the expense of more popular non-natives like pheasants?
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The pheasant's ubiquity is largely due to its popularity as a gamebird: millions of birds are reared in captivity each year, to be released in time for the start of the shooting season on 1 October.
Birdwatch: Pheasant 2011
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For example, would you support programs to boost dwindling native gamebird species like lesser prairie chickens even at the expense of more popular non-natives like pheasants?
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I would like to write a story about hunting for a small, little known North American gamebird called the Bobwhite Quail.
Wanna be a Published Outdoor Writer? Tim Romano 2008
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They're also the gamebird that is closest to trap shooting.
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