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Birds that treat lakes like furniture and wind like a free taxi.
means A bird that lives on or around water and is adapted for swimming or wading — ducks, geese, and swans are the classic examples.
from A plain old Germanic compound: 'water' plus 'fowl,' the latter from Old English 'fugol,' the general-purpose word for 'bird' before it narrowed to mean poultry and game birds specifically. So waterfowl simply means, with no hidden cleverness, 'water bird' — one of English's most honestly-labeled words.
- legal term
- US wildlife law defines waterfowl specifically for hunting regulations
- waterproofing
- they oil their own feathers using a gland near the tail
- not pelicans
- swans count, but herons and pelicans technically do not
- migration math
- some geese fly over 3000 miles without landing once