wader
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- noun
- /ˈweɪdər/
- UK
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- The park is home to many different species of waders, including herons and storks.
- waders and shorebirds
Examples
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At dawn, the graceful waders could be seen searching for food along the shallow shoreline.
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Ever since Darwin, shorebirds, or waders (sandpipers, plovers, and allies) have attracted the attention of evolutionary biologists.
Academic text (2006) -
Presbyornis, a bristle-billed duck from the Eocene (some fifty million years ago), also converged on the same niche: a long-necked, plankton-straining wader of lakeshores.
Academic text (1999) -
We watched a flock of waders as they picked at the mud for insects during low tide.
Synonyms
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2.0
A large bird with long legs and neck that wades to catch fish
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2.4
A bird that lives near fresh water and swims or wades
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3.6
A bird with long legs that stands in shallow water to catch fish and insects
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6.9
A long-legged bird that wades in shallow water like marshes or lagoons
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A long-legged black-and-white bird that stands in shallow water to find food
A long-legged bird that wades in shallow water and has three toes
A long-legged black and white bird that walks in shallow water in ponds or marshes
A long-legged bird with long pink legs and black-and-white feathers that lives in Australian marshes
How Long-Legged
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word wader comes from the verb wade, which means 'to walk through water', plus the ending -er meaning 'one who'. So a wader is a bird with long legs that walks in shallow water to find food.