wading bird
noun
Origin of wading bird
1First recorded in 1840–50
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How to use wading bird in a sentence
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 HaeckelThe white ibis (Ibis melanocephala) is another wading bird, rather smaller than the spoonbill and with considerably shorter legs.
Glimpses of Indian Birds | Douglas Dewar
He 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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