The water bird then flew away, cackling with pleasure at its freedom.

There it swims out now, and it's a big water bird, too.

He is a regular water bird, though he is not over eighteen years old.

Across the lake, a water bird took flight, swirling and soaring away into the distance.

Her hair got loose as she hurried, and she reminded me of some wild water bird.

Several other boats of various sizes took to the water and surrounded the large new water bird like ducklings.

The old gentleman had immediately identified it as a plover, a water bird about the size of a quail.

Without being seen by the parents, he took the bird into the hut and exchanged it for the water bird.

Sometimes for an instant he scanned the surface of the lake for signs of breaking fish or splash of migrant water bird.

A monstrous water bird, with a long curved neck supporting a fierce crested head and large unblinking eyes, was coming toward him.

The man who had called to him held up a coil of rope, attached at one end to the strange enormous water bird.

She began to walk up on her toes like a water bird, ready to take flight at the crack of a twig, at anything.

The canoes wheeled and soon hung like water birds at our side.

If the fresh- water birds follow my advice, they will move north immediately.'

Not far away, several water birds were seen scavenging among washed-up dead fish.

Rodents of the fields, like the water birds, suffered untold deaths.