game bird
noun
: a bird that may be legally hunted according to the laws especially of a state of the U.S.
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There Wilson will sear dry-aged proteins, from fish to game birds to beef.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
Red-legged partridges have been a favorite game bird in Europe for millennia; its bones even show up in Paleolithic settlements.
—Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
The two game birds look similar and were ending up on people's dinner tables in basically the same way, McKean says.
—Natalie Escobar, NPR, 26 Nov. 2025
Golden retrievers were developed in the mid-19th century in another part of the U.K., Scotland, and were designed to work alongside hunters and retriever game birds from both land and water.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
Red-legged partridges have been a favorite game bird in Europe for millennia; its bones even show up in Paleolithic settlements.
—Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
The two game birds look similar and were ending up on people's dinner tables in basically the same way, McKean says.
—Natalie Escobar, NPR, 26 Nov. 2025
Golden retrievers were developed in the mid-19th century in another part of the U.K., Scotland, and were designed to work alongside hunters and retriever game birds from both land and water.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
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“Game bird.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/game%20bird. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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