English > wading bird: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food. |
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| Synonym | wader |
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| Narrower | bustard | large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial / terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight |
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| button quail, button-quail, bustard quail, hemipode | small quail-like terrestrial / terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe |
| chunga, seriema, Chunga burmeisteri | Argentinian Cariama |
| courlan, Aramus guarauna | wading bird of South America and Central America |
| crane | large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world |
| crested cariama, seriema, Cariama cristata | Brazilian Cariama |
| flamingo | large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill |
| heron | Grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill |
| ibis | wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills |
| limpkin, Aramus pictus | wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call |
| ortygan | Any of several East Indian birds |
| plain wanderer, Pedionomus torquatus | small Australian bird related to the button quail |
| rail | Any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud |
| shoebill, shoebird, Balaeniceps rex | large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe |
| shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird | Any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries |
| spoonbill | wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon |
| stork | large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage |
| trumpeter | large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests / forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry |
| Broader | aquatic bird | wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water |
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| Spanish | aves limícolas, ave zancuda |
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| Catalan | camallarg, ocells limícoles |
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