wading bird
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Today, these restored wetlands sing with the buzzing of bees and beetles, the mating calls of bitterns and other wading birds, and, each winter, the hum of murmurations as starlings dance across the skies.
Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.
Pickerel, pik′e-rel, n. an American pike: a wading bird, the dunlin.
There are no web-marks to indicate the latter; hence it is a three-toed walking or wading bird.
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide | Augusta Foote ArnoldThese remains belong to a swimming bird of the albatross species, and a wading bird like a snipe.
The History of Creation, Vol. II (of 2) | Ernst Haeckel
The white ibis (Ibis melanocephala) is another wading bird, rather smaller than the spoonbill and with considerably shorter legs.
Glimpses of Indian Birds | Douglas DewarHe wrote afterward that he had for the first time to study how a wading bird walked on both sides of a median line.
The Chautauquan, Vol. III, January 1883 | The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle
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