wading bird

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.

These remains belong to a swimming bird of the albatross species, and a wading bird like a snipe.

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

He wrote afterward that he had for the first time to study how a wading bird walked on both sides of a median line.