What is "wading birds"

Usage examples of "wading birds".

When the tidal marshes drained again, it spent the other half of its day as a high and dry hill firmly joined to the mainland once more, but surrounded by treacherous bogs, pools of brackish water, and long, landlocked oxbow lakes where saltwater fish swam in surprised dismay to find themselves cut off from the sea, easy prey to the thousands of waterfowl and wading birds and canny swamp foxes living in the marshlands.

But several large wading birds tucked their long legs beneath them and unfurled imposing wings as they took to the saturated sky.

Masaryk broke off, his mouth sagging under his black mustache as he stared at the wading birds.

Undoubtedly she would have found pleasure in the warmth of Friday's teasing sunrise over Florida Bay, and in the skittering baitfish and aristocratic wading birds and all-embracing solitude.

Also in evidence was a phalanx of wading birds, whose long-legged presence should have signaled the dramatic change of water depth.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

Flat out, the swoop tore from the underbrush into a treeless expanse of salt flats, pink and blinding white, the nighttime sleeping grounds for flocks of Selvaris's long-legged wading birds.

It was not much of a road, merely a rutted cart track that wound between brush and pine and edged past great swamps where long-legged wading birds flapped slowly into the winter air as the Riflemen passed.

He saw them as a flock of stalky wading birds, dazzlingly competent with their sprightly hops and debonair pivots.