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himantopus espanhol
cigüeñela Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.
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Some scientists believe that climate change is making the daddy-longlegs more common here.
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But the sight of countless daddy longlegs scuttling for cover did.
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This wreckage is as close as I care to come to a daddy-longlegs.
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A big daddy-longlegs scuttled toward a refuge under the pool table.
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A daddy longlegs was high-stepping it up my sleeve.
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They had come to an area of scrubby brush on stilt roots.
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I stepped onto the dock and looked up at the stilt house.
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And the red land-crabs, on their stilt-like legs, crept nearer and nearer.
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Hundreds have lived in traditional wooden stilt homes by its banks for decades.
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John Enderby reined up his horse and looked the stilt-walker in the face.
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Perhaps the long-legs will define their own fate-andours-regardlessof our wishes.
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From out of the dusk-darkened snowfall came the largest of the long-legs.
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Is it true a full salt bag was rescued by a long-legs?
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Many gave credit to the long-legs for the colony's good fortune.
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He watched helplessly as the long-legs carried away the limp form.
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These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.