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Wader   /wˈeɪdər/   Listen
Wader

noun
1.
Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food.  Synonym: wading bird.






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"Wader" Quotes from Famous Books



... spreading its short black-edged wings in order to take flight, and divide among its young brood the products of its labors. Do you see that beautiful large bird with a tuft on its forehead? That is the Ardea agami, a wader of the heron genus. But look, there is a flock of egretts (Egretta alba), clothed in their plumage as white as the ermine. They fly about in flocks, but separate for their fishing. These birds have rather a grave and sad air, and utter now ...
— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart

... a swift familiar of the sun Where aye before God's face his trumpets run? Or have we but the talons and the maw, And for the abject likeness of our heart Shall some less lordly bird be set apart?— Some gross-billed wader where the swamps are fat? Some gorger in the sun? ...
— Gloucester Moors and Other Poems • William Vaughn Moody



Words linked to "Wader" :   shorebird, shoebird, ibis, ortygan, aquatic bird, Pedionomus torquatus, rail, plain wanderer, crane, crested cariama, trumpeter, limpkin, chunga, Aramus guarauna, flamingo, bustard quail, courlan, Balaeniceps rex, shore bird, Aramus pictus, limicoline bird, seriema, button-quail, spoonbill, stork, Cariama cristata, button quail, heron, wade, bustard, shoebill, hemipode, Chunga burmeisteri



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