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Meanings of water bird in English

Russian
водная птица
Portuguese
aves aquáticas
Catalan
au aquàtica
Wikidata

Birds that live on or around water.

водная птица
Portuguese
aves aquáticas
Catalan
ocell aquàtic
Spanish
ave acuática

Freshwater aquatic bird.

aves aquáticas
Synonyms
Examples for "waterfowl"
Examples for "waterfowl"
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It's an important habitat for native fish, waterfowl, migratory and coastal birds.
Radio NZ
2
Noosing waterfowl is another general and very successful mode of taking them.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and ...
3
Fish & Wildlife Service conducted its 17th annual census of migratory waterfowl.
The new yorker
4
But no shells came to disturb the waterfowl among the reeds around.
Now It Can Be Told
5
At these non-human hours they could get quite close to the waterfowl.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
1
It is home to two inhabited islands and also sustains nearly 200 waterbird species.
The South African
2
Some kind of waterbird, she says.
The Hunger Games
3
Minutes passed; a waterbird on the river beside them stirred and called; the occasional car moved over Magdalen Bridge.
The amber spyglass
4
Prof Richard Kingsford, a UNSW ecologist who coordinates an annual waterbird survey, said: This study has filled a major gap.
The Guardian
5
She had salt-and-pepper hair and a large, patrician nose, and her angular, rawboned body had reminded me of a waterbird.
Stiltsville: a novel
Usage of water bird in English
1
The water bird then flew away, cackling with pleasure at its freedom.
Folktales from africa: the baboons who went this way and that
2
There it swims out now, and it's a big water bird, too.
Pathfinder; or, The Missing Tenderfoot
3
He is a regular water bird, though he is not over eighteen years old.
On The Blockade
4
Across the lake, a water bird took flight, swirling and soaring away into the distance.
Don't Cry Tai Lake
5
Her hair got loose as she hurried, and she reminded me of some wild water bird.
The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake; Or, the Hermit of Fern Island
6
Several other boats of various sizes took to the water and surrounded the large new water bird like ducklings.
The Valley of Horses
7
The old gentleman had immediately identified it as a plover, a water bird about the size of a quail.
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
8
Without being seen by the parents, he took the bird into the hut and exchanged it for the water bird.
Folktales from africa: the baboons who went this way and that
9
Sometimes for an instant he scanned the surface of the lake for signs of breaking fish or splash of migrant water bird.
The Harvester
10
A monstrous water bird, with a long curved neck supporting a fierce crested head and large unblinking eyes, was coming toward him.
The Valley of Horses
11
The man who had called to him held up a coil of rope, attached at one end to the strange enormous water bird.
The Valley of Horses
12
She began to walk up on her toes like a water bird, ready to take flight at the crack of a twig, at anything.
Transgression: a novel of love and war
13
The canoes wheeled and soon hung like water birds at our side.
Montlivet
14
If the fresh- water birds follow my advice, they will move north immediately.'
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
15
Not far away, several water birds were seen scavenging among washed-up dead fish.
Don't Cry Tai Lake
16
Rodents of the fields, like the water birds, suffered untold deaths.
The adventures of button
Translations for water bird