Birds that live on or around water.
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Examples for "waterfowl"
Examples for "waterfowl"
1It's an important habitat for native fish, waterfowl, migratory and coastal birds.
2Noosing waterfowl is another general and very successful mode of taking them.
3Fish & Wildlife Service conducted its 17th annual census of migratory waterfowl.
4But no shells came to disturb the waterfowl among the reeds around.
5At these non-human hours they could get quite close to the waterfowl.
1It is home to two inhabited islands and also sustains nearly 200 waterbird species.
2Some kind of waterbird, she says.
3Minutes passed; a waterbird on the river beside them stirred and called; the occasional car moved over Magdalen Bridge.
4Prof Richard Kingsford, a UNSW ecologist who coordinates an annual waterbird survey, said: This study has filled a major gap.
5She had salt-and-pepper hair and a large, patrician nose, and her angular, rawboned body had reminded me of a waterbird.
1The water bird then flew away, cackling with pleasure at its freedom.
2There it swims out now, and it's a big water bird, too.
3He is a regular water bird, though he is not over eighteen years old.
4Across the lake, a water bird took flight, swirling and soaring away into the distance.
5Her hair got loose as she hurried, and she reminded me of some wild water bird.
6Several other boats of various sizes took to the water and surrounded the large new water bird like ducklings.
7The old gentleman had immediately identified it as a plover, a water bird about the size of a quail.
8Without being seen by the parents, he took the bird into the hut and exchanged it for the water bird.
9Sometimes for an instant he scanned the surface of the lake for signs of breaking fish or splash of migrant water bird.
10A monstrous water bird, with a long curved neck supporting a fierce crested head and large unblinking eyes, was coming toward him.
11The man who had called to him held up a coil of rope, attached at one end to the strange enormous water bird.
12She began to walk up on her toes like a water bird, ready to take flight at the crack of a twig, at anything.
13The canoes wheeled and soon hung like water birds at our side.
14If the fresh- water birds follow my advice, they will move north immediately.'
15Not far away, several water birds were seen scavenging among washed-up dead fish.
16Rodents of the fields, like the water birds, suffered untold deaths.
Translations for water bird