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Wader n.

One who, or that which, wades.

(Zool.) Any long-legged bird that wades in the water in search of food, especially any species of limicoline or grallatorial birds; called also wading bird.

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"Wader" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen, when the tide fell, save dreary mud flats whole miles in extent, with the line of blue water beyond stretching along the distant horizon. These mud flats were much frequented by birds of the wader family, that used to come and fish in the shallow pools for the small fry that had lingered behind when the tide fell; and my cousin, a keen sportsman in his day, has told me that he used to steal upon them in his mud shoes,—flat ...

— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller

Words linked to "Wader" : courlan, button-quail, plain wanderer, wading bird, Aramus pictus, ibis, shore bird, Balaeniceps rex, wade, stork, button quail, chunga, Cariama cristata, spoonbill, rail, limpkin, trumpeter, seriema, bustard quail, limicoline bird, flamingo