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wading bird
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wading bird1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.
From The Daily Beast
Pickerel, pik′e-rel, n. an American pike: a wading bird, the dunlin.
From Project Gutenberg
There are no web-marks to indicate the latter; hence it is a three-toed walking or wading bird.
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These remains belong to a swimming bird of the albatross species, and a wading bird like a snipe.
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The white ibis (Ibis melanocephala) is another wading bird, rather smaller than the spoonbill and with considerably shorter legs.
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He wrote afterward that he had for the first time to study how a wading bird walked on both sides of a median line.
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