Waterfowl hunting

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Duck Hunters on the Lagoon (c. 1760) by Pietro Longhi

An illustration from the book Reptiles and birds; A popular account of the various orders; with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting (1869) titled Duck shooting from a hut

A duck hunter with his dog on a lake in the Chippewa National Forest in a photograph taken on November 27, 1938 by an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture. Decoy ducks can be seen around the canoe.

Waterfowl hunting (also called wildfowling or waterfowl shooting in the UK) is the practice of hunting aquatic birds such as ducks, geese and other waterfowls or shorebirds for food and sport.

Many types of ducks and geese share the same habitat, have overlapping or identical hunting seasons, and are hunted using the same methods. Thus it is possible to take different species of waterfowl in the same outing. Waterfowl can be hunted in crop fields where they feed, or, more frequently, on or near bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, ponds, wetlands, sloughs, or sea coasts.