So there really is such a thing as “Fowling”.

@jack I thought fowling was hunting grouse or quail.

@jack In a Noel Coward song, “The Stately Homes of England”:

We’ve a cousin who won the Golden Fleece
And a very peculiar fowling-piece
Which was sent to Cromwell’s niece…

Which was my first experience with the term “fowling-piece” (a shotgun appropriate for shooting fowl).