wading bird


Origin of wading bird

1
First recorded in 1840–50

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How to use wading bird in a sentence

  • 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