The phrase "a game bird" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to birds that are hunted for sport or food, typically in the context of hunting or culinary discussions.
Example: "The chef prepared a delicious dish using a game bird, showcasing the rich flavors of the meat."
Alternatives: "a hunting bird" or "a wild bird".
Despite this, the species is a game bird in some 13 Gulf and Atlantic coast states, although rarely hunted.
The grey partridge is a game bird native to Britain, unlike the more common red-legged partridge, which was introduced.
At least it should be declared a game bird and given a few months a year when it couldn't be shot at.
Maybe she wanted us to think of vermin strung up on a gamekeeper's gibbet, or a game bird hung in Tate Britain's neo-classical larder.
Among some of the more bizarre criminal offences created in the past five years include disturbing a pack of eggs when instructed not to by an authorised officer, or offering for sale a game bird killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day.
Shikar is a game bird (guinea hen, the night we ordered it) in a brown sauce that features another assortment of Kashmiri spices and the intriguing lotus root, an appealingly chewy tuber that looks in cross-section like an old-fashioned rotary phone dial.
For Boulud, a chartreuse was this: a game-bird confection that looks like a joke birthday cake.
But I prefer guinea fowl – a domesticated game bird with a flavour and texture somewhere between the moist, mild chicken and the tighter, gamier flesh of the pheasant.
It is a fair game bird, springing up with an unnerving squawk, flying a twisted course, and dropping suddenly to cover.
Considered a fine game bird earlier in the twentieth century, many a yellowlegs was shot "by an angry gunner as a reward for its exasperating loquacity" (Bent 1927: 321927
Most Americans know that the turkey is a native game bird, and that Benjamin Franklin thought it would have been a better national symbol than the bald eagle.
