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