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- A duck decoy (or decoy duck) is a man-made object resembling a real duck. Duck decoys are sometimes used in waterfowl hunting to attract real ducks. Duck...
- A decoy (derived from the Dutch de kooi, literally "the cage" or possibly ende kooi, "duck cage") is usually a person, device, or event which resembles...
- A duck decoy is a device to capture wild ducks or other species of waterfowl. Decoys had an advantage over hunting ducks with shotguns as the duck meat...
- as a decoy duck, to attract wild ducks into traps. The first recorded mentions of the breed are from the Netherlands where it was used as a decoy and known...
- Duck decoy is an ambiguous term which may be applied to: Duck decoy (structure), a device used to catch wildfowl consisting of a central pond and radiating...
- The Boarstall Duck Decoy is a 17th-century duck decoy located in Boarstall, Buckinghamshire, England, and now a National Trust property. The system took...
- Hale Duck Decoy is a duck decoy and nature reserve near the village of Hale, in Halton, Cheshire, England. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and...
- was originally used as a working dog, particularly in an eendenkooi (duck decoy) to lure ducks. Kooikers were po****r in the 17th and 18th century[citation...
- trapped using duck decoys. Because an idle floating duck or a duck squatting on land cannot react to fly or move quickly, "a sitting duck" has come to...
- Book of Duck Decoys – Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, 1886 (full text) British Duck Decoys of To-Day, 1918 – Joseph Whitaker (full text) Midwest Decoy Collectors...