Word: wildfowl
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...epidemic--a slate wiper, as epidemiologists call it--would be a new kind of deadly flu to which humans have no resistance. And since the 1960s, their fears have been focused on the H5N1 virus, a bird pathogen that is generally harmless in its host species (ducks and other wildfowl) but extremely deadly when contracted by chickens. It was H5N1 that struck Hong Kong in 1997, where it went straight from chickens to humans. Authorities quickly killed 1.4 million birds, and although six people died, the disease never managed to mutate into a highly contagious form...
...stern slowly dropping as it filled with leaking oil, the Mega Borg seemed likely to sink, a calamity that might have released its entire cargo; if so, the prevailing currents would apparently have carried the spilled oil toward one of the nation's largest estuary systems, including a vast wildfowl refuge...
...sons Princes Charles, 26, Andrew, 14, and Edward, 10, and a handful of servants squeezed themselves into a nearby six-bedroom farmhouse known as Wood Farm; all other royals, including the Queen Mother, 74, and guests, were left to fend for themselves in nearby fiefs or hotels. Only the wildfowl who live on the 20,000-acre Sandringham estate were assured of spending the holidays in a manner to which they are accustomed: the traditional pheasant shoot, an unhappy affair for as many as 8,000 birds, was in no danger of being canceled...
...adopted by the British Admiralty for all ships on duty in the Atlantic. Today, a world-renowned naturalist, conservationist and ornithologist, he is a councilor of the London Zoo and keeper of the world's greatest collection of exotic ducks, geese and swans at his own Severn Wildfowl Trust...
...last week-after four weeks of open season in the Northern Zone and one week in the Intermediate Zone-wildfowlers had been stupendously stood up. So far, they had got little but goose-pimples. As yet, duck weather on the home prairies had not been chilly enough to send the wildfowl south...