Bird hunting

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Game birds, Turkey, Duck, Columbidae, Waterfowl hunting, Mourning Dove, Scaled quail, Canada Goose, Wild Turkey, Chukar Partridge, Bird trapping, Tibetan Partridge, Montezuma Quail, Common Snipe, California Quail, Grey Partridge, Gambel's Quail, Ocellated Turkey, New World quail, Cannon-netting, Duck decoy, Muttonbirding, Birdlime, Duck call, Faroese puffin, Perdix, Bal-chatri, Driven grouse shooting, Punt gun, Embden goose, Turkey hunting, Toulouse goose, Daurian Partridge, Upland hunting, Cockshoot, Fowling, Mist net, Bat-fowling, Cocking-cloth, Rocket net, Upland game bird. Excerpt: Waterfowl hunting (also called wildfowling or waterfowl shooting in the UK) is the practice of hunting ducks, geese, or other waterfowl for food and sport. In many western countries, commercial waterfowl hunting is prohibited, and duck hunting is primarily an outdoor sporting activity. 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 not uncommon to take several different species of waterfowl in the same outing, yet is not something that happens too often. There are several different types of duck hunting and goose hunting one can do. Waterfowl can be hunted in crop fields where they feed, or, more frequently, on or near bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, sloughs, or oceanic coastlines. Wild waterfowl have been hunted for food, down, and feathers worldwide since prehistoric times. Ducks, geese, and swans appear in European cave paintings from the last Ice Age, and a mural in the Ancient Egyptian tomb of Khum-Hotpe (c. 1900 BC) shows a man in a hunting blind capturing swimming ducks in a trap. Muscovy ducks were depicted in the art of the Mochina culture of ancient Peru by 200 BC, and were likely hunted by many people of the Americas before then. Native Americans were using the bow and arrow to hunt ducks around the year 1000 as triangular stone points were found in archaeologic sites dating to this era, and also used cage-type traps or swam under water to capture swimming birds. Waterfowl hunting with shotguns began in the 17th century with the matchlock shotgun. Later flintlock shotguns and percussion cap were used. Shotguns were loaded with black powder and lead shot through the muzzle in the 17th century to the late 19th century. Damascus barrels shot only black powder charges. When smokeless powder was invented in the late 19th century, steel barrels were made. Damascus barrels which were made of a twisted steel could not take the high pressur