How To Use Wading bird In A Sentence
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Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.
Wildwood
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Low tide reveals mile upon mile of sandy beaches and mudflats that provide rich pickings for the thousands of wading birds and wildfowl from neighbouring Leighton Moss and other parts of the bay.
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Raptors, colonial birds, shorebirds, wading birds, and waterfowl can all be found feeding and nesting on various islands in the Bay.
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Next he let loose with the melodious song of the goldfinch and followed this closely with the ‘whew, whew, whew, ‘of the greater yellowlegs, a migratory wading bird.’
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An even bigger threat from the proposed wind farm is potential damage to the peatland breeding habitat of wading birds like greenshank, dunlin, and golden plover.
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These birds formed the topic of our after-supper conversation, and then it generalised to the different species of wading birds of America, and at length that singular creature, the "ibis," became the theme.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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Luciano Cheles has also observed that "on both sides of the [Carte de trionfi] card devoted to 'Geometria,' a wading bird that may well be a crane is represented in the foreground of the landscape," a feature that he suggests "hints at surveying" (Studiolo of Urbino, 81).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Continue to the head of the loch, whose muddy shore provides a fine habitat for wading birds and where herons are often stationed at intervals, patiently waiting to catch their prey.
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There are now enormous numbers of wading birds in Britain along our muddy shores.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a magnet for wading birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rare bird species, including wading birds such as the curlew, lapwing and snipe, would also be reintroduced to the site under the plans.
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Kuwait Bay is one of the world's most important wintering grounds for wading birds.
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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
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Thousands of migratory wading birds took wing as the tide filled the Thames Estuary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five varieties of wading bird, including snipe and curlew, were also affected.
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The bittern is a further wading bird; its cry is usually described as a "boom," and the first part of its name, from Latin butio, represents this.
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In and around the estuaries, freshwater mingled with salt to create habitats supporting mangroves and nurseries for wading birds and fish.
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The reserve is already home to several species of dragonfly, damselflies and is used by wading birds, all of which are expected to benefit from the new pond.
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They provide the habitat of a wide variety of species of wading birds.
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The private fish camp on Orange lake is known for its limpkins, wading birds, shorebirds and wintering ducks.
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Okarito Lagoon is the largest estuarine lagoon on the South Island's west coast and is an important habitat for wading birds, including South Island pied oystercatcher Haematopus sp., pied stilt and the migratory bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica and knot Calidris sp.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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Low tide reveals mile upon mile of sandy beaches and mudflats that provide rich pickings for the thousands of wading birds and wildfowl from neighbouring Leighton Moss and other parts of the bay.
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Okarito Lagoon is the largest estuarine lagoon on the South Island's west coast and is an important habitat for wading birds, including South Island pied oystercatcher Haematopus sp., pied stilt and the migratory bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica and knot Calidris sp.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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These animals become food for over 150,000 wading birds including knot, lapwing and golden plover.
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Thousands of migratory wading birds took wing as the tide filled the Thames Estuary.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1997, we estimated that about 800 pairs of wading birds nested at heronries on Canarsie Pol Island.
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The Severn Estuary, where the celebrated naturalist Sir Peter Scott founded Slimbridge, the wildfowl refuge which became one of the world's most famous nature reserves, provides an 86,000-acre feeding ground for wild swans, geese and many thousands of wading birds, such as dunlin, turnstone, oystercatcher and ringed plover, from all over Europe.
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Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.
Wildwood
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It's a big project then, one that would bring back good numbers of those wading birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this area, ducks, wading birds, and shorebirds are awaiting your visit.
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A jack snipe, a rare wading bird, has been seen.
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Then, just metres away, lands one of the most entertaining of wading birds, the starling-sized sanderling.
Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk
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A large brownish wading bird(Aramus guarauna) of warm, swampy regions of the New World, having long legs, a drooping bill, and a distinctive wailing call.
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It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
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The limpkin, a rare wading bird with a dagger beak, stalks the edges of the Little River and park lake.
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When the tide is out the sand flats are busy with a variety of wading birds.
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It's a magnet for wading birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is an important wintering ground for European migratory birds such as the white stork, the lesser kestrel, the Eurasian golden oriole, the Eurasian cuckoo and other wading birds.
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A gaggle of Catholic nuns from Kerala, in full habits, delicately dipped their feet like pale blue wading birds.
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U.S. researcher Peter Frederick captured 160 young white ibises – a coastal wading bird – and gave them food laced with methylmercury.
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Some taxonomic groups are particularly species rich in a global context: any impact of climate warming on such species, for example, willows (Salix spp.), sawflies, stoneflies, wading birds, and salmonid fish, is likely to affect their diversity at the global level.
Arctic environments north of the treeline
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It's a big project then, one that would bring back good numbers of those wading birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are now enormous numbers of wading birds in Britain along our muddy shores.
Times, Sunday Times
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The park is known for its rich bird life, so focus on large wading birds, such as the roseate spoonbill, woodstork, great blue heron and a variety of egrets.
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When the tide is out a huge expanse of mud is left exposed on this flat landscape, giving the perfect opportunity for wading birds such as sanderling to feast themselves on the variety of marine invertebrates that call this mud home.
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It's the largest wading bird in North America, standing up to five feet tall with a wingspan of almost eight feet.
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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
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We were fortunate when visiting the Suffolk Blyth estuary in May: the first mudbanks were just appearing, and a host of wading birds soon put in an appearance, among them 10 spotted redshank.
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Rare bird species, including wading birds such as the curlew, lapwing and snipe, would also be reintroduced to the site under the plans.
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That was before I realised what they were hunting - turtle doves, finches, robins, wading birds, whatever - considering it their democratic right to shoot, trap and eat anything that flies, often regardless of their protected status.
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Although storks are wading birds, they usually nest in trees.
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The island also attracts a variety of wading birds such as herons and egrets and many songbirds.
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Some taxonomic groups are particularly species rich in a global context: any impact of climate warming on such species, for example, willows (Salix spp.), sawflies, stoneflies, wading birds, and salmonid fish, is likely to affect their diversity at the global level.
Arctic environments north of the treeline