wading bird

Noun
  1. Any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food (synset 102003608)
    is a type of: aquatic bird - wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water
    subtypes:
    • stork - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
    • balaeniceps rex, shoebill, shoebird - large stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe
    • ibis - wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
    • spoonbill - wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
    • flamingo - large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes
    • heron - grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
    • crane - large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world
    • aramus guarauna, courlan - wading bird of South America and Central America
    • aramus pictus, limpkin - wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call
    • cariama cristata, crested cariama, seriema - Brazilian Cariama; sole representative of the genus Cariama
    • chunga, chunga burmeisteri, seriema - Argentinian Cariama
    • 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
    • bustard - large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes
    • bustard quail, button quail, button-quail, hemipode - small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains
    • ortygan - any of several East Indian birds
    • pedionomus torquatus, plain wanderer - small Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains
    • trumpeter - large gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated
    • limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries
    same as: wader

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