From Aug. 12, the date on which grouse come into season, until the beginning of February, which sees the end of the partridge and pheasant seasons, the rituals of game-bird shooting play themselves out in Britain as they have more or less for centuries. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Distinctive game-bird scenes on both sides of the receiver mark the model. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Probably the best way to locate a local source is to consult local pet stores, the county farm advisor's office, university faculty of agriculture, game-bird fanciers, and the like. ❋ Unknown (1991)
With her for decoy even that game-bird might be lured. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
The tramp on the dusty highway, the clerk in the counting-house, the sportsman upon the moor, the preacher in his pulpit, game-bird and barn-door fowl alike, all were simultaneously bagged. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then he fell to wondering if -- he consulted his note-book -- J. Winfield Harrah had specialized at all upon his method of serving up this game-bird which knows no closed season? ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)
Among the trees was the guan, another peculiar bird as big as a big grouse, and with certain habits of the wood-grouse, but not akin to any northern game-bird. ❋ Unknown (1914)
With her thin nostrils distended to this scent, Lady Casterley bore a distinct resemblance to a small, fine game-bird. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
There is one state in America, and so far as I know _only one_, in which there is at this moment an old-time abundance of game-bird life. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)
Besides these, there are a certain number of birds which have no claim to be termed British, and which are found in Norway all the year round -- the nut-cracker, several kinds of woodpecker, the ryper (the game-bird of the country), and others. ❋ Nico [Illustrator] Jungman (1893)
By the time the bobolink reaches the Potomac, in September, he has degenerated into a game-bird that is slaughtered by tens of thousands in the marshes. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The feathers of this big game-bird were carefully packed and sent home to mother and Flora. ❋ Gordon Stables (1875)
He said that the only game-bird in Australia was the wombat, and the only song-bird the larrikin, and that both were protected by government. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Chicken-hazard is scotched, not killed; but a poor, weazened, etiolated biped is that once game-bird now. ❋ Unknown (1870)
But what I mean to say, is this, that every English game-bird -- to use an American phrase -- is warier and wilder than its compeer in the United States. ❋ Henry William Herbert (1832)
I would like to point out that the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has opposed the use of small cages for the production of game-bird eggs since 2005 and continues to do so. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Today, most shooting preserves avoid the risk and expense of raising birds and instead order adult fowl on an as-needed basis from one of Minnesota's many game-bird producers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Whats your bird game looking like? How many chicks you got in [the flock]? [Im dead] [on the bird] game I with wifey. ❋ KapoKel (2018)
“I don’t know why they got so [fired up] about what [Hogwarts] house they identify with - it’s just a bird game about [boards]” ❋ (2023)
