Meanings of waterbird in English

It is home to two inhabited islands and also sustains nearly 200 waterbird species.

Some kind of waterbird, she says.

Minutes passed; a waterbird on the river beside them stirred and called; the occasional car moved over Magdalen Bridge.

Prof Richard Kingsford, a UNSW ecologist who coordinates an annual waterbird survey, said: This study has filled a major gap.

She had salt-and-pepper hair and a large, patrician nose, and her angular, rawboned body had reminded me of a waterbird.

Canada is the only country which trains its Sea King pilots to perform 'waterbird' landings and the duke performed it for the first time.

We compared the European and eastern Chinese waterbird assemblages and checked whether the effects of human disturbance could be detected in the assemblages' composition.

The national park is home to migratory waterbirds including flocks of greater flamingoes.

Waterbirds and peatlands birds will also be affected by rising temperatures.

Putting up flocks of waterbirds and waders from frozen lakes is a casual unkindness.

She listened to the waves gently lapping against the shoreline and the calls of waterbirds.

We lived in the time of the seasons, of the harvests, of the migrations of the waterbirds.

Signed up to by 164 countries, it had as its main concern the conservation of the planet's migratory waterbirds.

The main channel widened and the current diminished; narrow river islets dotted the watercourse; and river otters and long-legged waterbirds abounded.

There were still waterbirds taking their fastidious little steps in the saltwater, where mossy trees dipped down as if to drink.

The farms engaged with seasonal changes to have a positive environmental impact, creating a new ecological system rich with vegetables and waterbirds.