game birds

flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food.

As the name suggests, they were actually trained as gun dogs to retrieve shot waterfowl such as ducks and upland game birds during hunting.

Any of several plump - bodied Old World game birds , especially of the genera Perdix and Alectoris, related to the pheasants and grouse .

Game shooting is strictly controlled and State-assisted restocking programmes augment stocks of wild game birds.

Seal hunting sounds unfair; but Europeans are reluctant to ban the hunting of similarly defenceless game birds, deer or wild boar.

In game birds, glucose 1-phosphate is formed by the breakdown of stored muscle glycogen, catalyzed by the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase.

Professor Muir offers a brief history lesson. The first domesticated chickens were used as fighting game birds.

The number of fish, game birds, or other animals killed or captured at one time.

Raw poultry dishes from chicken, duck, goose, rabbit and venison usually also classified as game birds and other dishes.

Since ancient times it has been observed that certain game birds , such as grouse , quail, and pheasants, are easily fatigued .

Game birds are hunted for sport.

Gadgets not game birds: Looters broke into this Comet store in Tottenham retail park stealing televisions and cameras

Poach: ~ (for sth) catch (game birds, animals or fish) without permission on sb else's property