wild-geese

For the third consecutive year city officials have contracted with the USDA to control its wild-geese population within seven miles of the two major airports; the geese are considered an aviation threat.

Geese in Park Duck Fate Sumathi Reddy 2011

There are no black-cock, muir-fowl, nor partridges; but there are snipe, wild-duck, wild-geese, and swans, in winter; wild-pidgeons, plover, and great number of starlings; of which I shot some, and found them pretty good eating.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

I thought only of telling you that the crows, as well as wild-geese, are here birds of passage.

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

People are busy ballooning or driving; shooting like stars along railroads; or migrating like swallows or wild-geese.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

Salinas Plain, about fifteen miles of level ground, taking a shot occasionally at wild-geese, which abounded there, and entering the well-wooded valley that comes out from the foot of the Gavillano.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Do the bears and wolves, the coons and foxes, the owls and wild-geese, find this region unhealthy, and get the chills and fever, and go around grumbling and cursing?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

They came on like mad a distance of thirty paces, and then, as if they thought we were wild-geese to be frightened by their noise, they fired a volley against the blockhouse.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

Were not those wild-geese over there, flapping in the water with their huge wings and taking no notice of the passing strangers?

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

In the pitchblack darkness overhead the wild-geese could be heard rustling their wings as they flew southward, scared by his cigarette -- the tenth in succession.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

Their spirits are so married in conjunction with the participation of society that they flock together in consent, like so many wild-geese.

Act V. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914