wading bird

noun

1. wader ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of wading bird¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

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.

From Nautilus

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.

From Project Gutenberg

The white ibis (Ibis melanocephala) is another wading bird, rather smaller than the spoonbill and with considerably shorter legs.

From Project Gutenberg

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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