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 waterfowl ['wɒtәfәul]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 水鸟



    waterfowl
    [ noun ]
    freshwater aquatic bird
    <noun.animal>


    Waterfowl \Wa"ter*fowl`\, n.
    Any bird that frequents the water, or lives about rivers,
    lakes, etc., or on or near the sea; an aquatic fowl; -- used
    also collectively.

    Note: Of aquatic fowls, some are waders, or furnished with
    long legs; others are swimmers, or furnished with
    webbed feet.

    1. Many of what were once prime wetlands now sit empty of water and waterfowl.
    2. Grasshoppers eaten by waterfowl and raptors contained mercury and high levels of aldrin and dieldrin, pesticide components known to cause thinning of egg shells and weight loss in birds.
    3. Bass, crappies and bluegills grew fat, and the skies were dark with waterfowl.
    4. The state Wednesday released four giant trumpeter swans at the southern Minnesota lake to help restore the largest North American waterfowl to the area.
    5. Long also founded the California State Park Foundation, which contributed money to wildlife and waterfowl organizations.
    6. Killing a protected waterfowl is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
    7. Wildlife experts have said the plastic rings can remain intact for decades and pose a growing threat to fish and waterfowl, which can become snared in them.
    8. The migrating waterfowl hate the heavy-metal rock music by the groups so much that they avoid a pond contaminated by cyanide where the music is kept playing on loudspeakers 24 hours a day.
    9. "Biologists are beginning to worry that continued low water conditions in the areas waterfowl use for migration stopovers and wintering will concentrate the birds and make them more vulnerable to disease later this year," the service said.
    10. The stamps must be purchased by any hunter of waterfowl who is 16 years of age.
    11. The number of wintering waterfowl plunged 90% and nesting bald eagles dropped 70%, according to a report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
    12. It has been sighted in each of the Great Lakes and is moving to inland waterways by hitchhiking on boats, boat trailers, bait pails and even waterfowl.
    13. The rescued waterfowl, mostly open-ocean birds such as murres, are being fed twice a day with smelt.
    14. Some fuel was seeping into Goldstream Creek and the 500,000-acre Minto Flats Wildlife Refuge, a prime waterfowl nesting area.
    15. Interior Secretary Donald Hodel said the later authorization for some counties will protect waterfowl still nesting in wetland areas.
    16. Game biologists searched the banks for deer, fox, racoon and waterfowl, he said.
    17. Ducks Unlimited and the Nature Conservancy, both private groups, have signed a preliminary agreement to acquire and improve waterfowl habitat.
    18. Government lawyers told Exxon attorneys they wanted $15 million in advance for developing a long-term recovery plan and assessing the extent of damage to wildlife, waterfowl and fish and public lands.
    19. During the last ice age about 16,000 years ago, when mammoths and mastodons roamed Pennsylvania, the boulders and gravel from retreating glaciers filled an ancient stream channel and created a 13-mile-long expanse of water, waterlilies and waterfowl.
    20. Erosion claims as much as 60 square miles of Louisiana each year, destroying some of the nation's most productive habitat for seafood, waterfowl and animals with marketable pelts.
    21. The cyanide flows into a 250-acre settling pond, where it is poisonous to waterfowl.
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