wading bird

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wading bird

[′wād·iŋ ‚bərd]

(vertebrate zoology)

Any of the long-legged, long-necked birds composing the order Ciconiiformes, including storks, herons, egrets, and ibises.

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Gillian French, Biffa Award Programme Manager, said: "We're thrilled to be supporting WWT's work to boost the numbers of these rare wading birds.

A better home for our birdlife

The Great Thick-knee is a unique-looking large wading bird, well adapted to its diet of crabs, large insects and other small animals.

30 years' hard work pays off with sighting of rare bird

Wading bird numbers in the Western ecoregion were lowest in the Late Wet season (230/route) before increasing in the Early Wet season (F = 8.

Abundance and distribution of waterbirds in the Llanos of Venezuela

Bittern: Known for its booming call, the Bittern is a wading bird - part of the heron family.

Rare birds which drop in on the UK

A happy African wading bird with long legs and long toes, a Jay given to kidding around, a green tropical insectivorous bird with iridescent feathers, and a fancy tropical stork crowd together; a group of misfits in close proximity.

Jabberwocky

FOUR UK wading bird species saw numbers fall to new lows last year, as poor weather compounded long-term declines in populations, a survey has revealed.

Weather takes toll on birds

Swimming feeding remains one of the five published wading bird foraging behaviors that Snowy Egrets have not been documented using, although Great Egrets (Ardea alba), Great Blue Herons (A.

Novel Snowy Egret foraging behavior

This shy, mostly nocturnal wading bird belonged on some secluded creek bank, not here among the boaters, picnickers and frisbee-catching dogs.

Cry of the Limpkin

It wasn't too long ago that upland Wales reverberated to the almost ethereal music of this longbilled wading bird.

Controls are needed to stop curlew extinction

The dunlin is a small, brown wading bird with a shrill trilling call.

Reservoir birds on the up

The Hawaiian stilt, a black-and-white wading bird, makes its nest on tufts of land in the middle of coastal wetlands.

Base instinct: DoD and the woods of home

Wading bird chicks feed on insects found alongside pools of water, but with the pools drying up and bugs becoming scarce they are having to venture further afield to forage - facing greater danger as a result.