Waterfowl hunting

Waterfowl hunting (also called wildfowling or waterfowl shooting in Britain) is the act of hunting ducks, geese, or other waterfowl for food and sport. In many western countries, waterfowl hunting is illegal, and duck hunting is mostly an outdoor sporting activity.

Many types of ducks and geese share the same habitat, have overlapping or same hunting seasons, and are hunted the same. Thus it is possible to hunt different species of waterfowl in the same trip. Waterfowl can be hunted in crop fields where they eat, or, more often, on or near bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, sloughs, or oceanic coastlines.

Waterfowl Hunting Media

• Franc Anton Steinberg - Lov na race; čakališče na jezeru pri jami Lisišče.jpg

  Lov na race; čakališče na jezeru pri jami Lisišče (1759) by Franz Anton von Steinberg, which depicts waterfowl hunting

• Group of duck hunters on lake.jpg

  Three waterfowl hunters donned in camouflage and armed with shotguns.

• Firing a shot from a boat-mounted punt gun in Yorkshire, UK c. 1910

• Bgforhunting.jpg

  Duck hunters in a hunting blind. Decoys are visible in the water to the right.

• Wooden shooting butt overlooking a tarn - geograph.org.uk - 583457.jpg

  A wooden blind in North Yorkshire

• Feathered game of the Northeast (1907) (14755150402).jpg

  An illustration entitled "Sea Duck Shooting Over Decoys" from Feathered game of the Northeast (1907).

• Sydney Harold Smith boarding gun punt YORYM-S234.jpg

  A photograph of a waterfowl hunter launching his boat, c. 1900–1912

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  A duck hunter with two mallards and one redhead. A Labrador Retriever and duck decoys are visible in the background.

• Snowden Slights, front view YORYM-S13.jpg

  Snowden Slights 'the last of Yorkshire's Wildfowlers'

• FMIB 34651 Ducks Illegally Netted in Lake Ontario.jpeg

  Ducks are illegally netted in this photograph taken in 1916 which was presented to the Canadian Conservation of Fish, Birds and Game Committee.