The word "fowl" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any bird, particularly a wild one, such as a duck, goose, swan, partridge, or pheasant. For example: "The hunter brought back two plump fowl for dinner".
"It is neither fish nor fowl," Sargentini said.
The domesticated fowl was revered for millennia, not least for its prowess in combat – a trait that was exploited in sacred rituals and ultimately led to its spread across the globe.
This included some of Apfel's collection of exquisite pieces by rarified Paris and New York designers: there was a coat of multicoloured rooster, duck and fowl feathers by Jean-Louis Scherrer from 1962, and an orange jumpsuit by Geoffrey Beene from the early 80s.
One-third of the country's 76 provinces have infected fowl, and well over 10m birds have died or been culled.
The grandfather, once a keeper at Blenheim, who first taught Mr Ward his job, was a "broody-and-coop" man: as late as the 1960s pheasant eggs were put under a broody barnyard fowl, which hatched and tended them in her coop.
Unfortunately domestic fowl, which have borne the brunt so far of the H5N1 virus's spread, come under the ministry's aegis.
Henry VIII might have lived to chomp on a roast turkey leg, but what Henry V and his contemporaries knew as a turkey was instead the smaller African guinea hen, without the wattles and swollen pride of the Mexican turkey.But the small guinea fowl proved no match for the newcomer, which has finer flesh and feathers and a less irritating demeanour.
"This year we could only afford fowl for Christmas".
The park's resident pelicans have taken to varying their diet by gobbling up other wild fowl on the lake.A gaggle of American tourists watched this week as a white pelican, hailing originally from their own home state of Louisiana, snaffled up an unsuspecting moorhen.
Experts think the outbreak may have started through chance contact between farmyard chickens and wild fowl, which are known reservoirs of the virus.
But no longer is it exceptional in the sense that it can stand gloriously aloof from the sweep of the global economy, protecting its own businesses and movies, pretending to maintain a system that is neither capitalist fish nor socialist fowl, promoting a foreign policy that can no longer make a difference on its own.
