Sentence examples for waterfowl feed from inspiring English sources

Wild mammals often reside in the same habitats as waterfowl, feed in the same agricultural areas, wallow and swim in the same bodies of water, and prey on and scavenge dead birds for food.

Commercial waterfowl feed is recommended, but if you cannot find this, you can go with a commercial gamebird feed or non-medicated chicken feed.

In the process their fatty tissues accumulate concentrations of PCBs, methylmercury, and other contaminants at about 10 times the density of native mussels, giving the fish and waterfowl that feed on them an extra shot of biomagnified poison.

To the east of the river channel, for example, La Ciénega de Santa Clara, a 12,000-acre wetland that is a stopover for migrating waterfowl, is fed by water that drains from irrigated cotton fields in Arizona.

Organisations such as the Canal and River Trust offer suggestions as to what we should feed waterfowl instead of a stale slice of Warburtons Toastie.

Hunting with lead shot, along with the use of lead sinkers in angling, has been identified as a major cause of lead poisoning in waterfowl, which often feed off the bottom of lakes and wetlands where the shot collects.

The highest densities were observed over grasslands and wetlands, including nature conservation sites, where thousands of waterfowl rest and feed.

Then, there is almost always some open water in front of our blind at the mouth of Mill Brook where waterfowl can rest and feed.

Make sure you are allowed to feed the waterfowl.

I once scoffed at the chatterers who pop up this time of year during foie gras season, crying collective foul over the beak clipping and force feeding of waterfowl before their being processed as cracker spread.

A major impetus for this policy change was mortality in the endangered bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) population due to secondary lead poisoning from feeding on waterfowl containing lead ammunition [6] [8].