单词 | aquatic bird |
释义 | aquatic bird (once / 34259 pages) n WORD FAMILY aquatic bird: aquatic birds USAGE EXAMPLESOfficials at Calgary Zoo are perplexed as to how the aquatic birds drowned in the "Penguin Plunge" exhibit and called it "devastating news". BBC(Dec 09, 2016) Their diet consists of small prey, like turtles, fish and aquatic birds, so it’s unnatural for them to go after humans. Washington Times(Jul 03, 2016) Fish and Wildlife Service acted improperly when it allowed tens of thousands of migratory aquatic birds to be shot each year to protect fish populations. US News(Mar 30, 2016) n wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water Hypo|Hyper water bird, waterbird, waterfowl freshwater aquatic bird swanstately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult wader, wading birdany of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food gallinule, marsh hen, swamphen, water henany of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens sea bird, seabird, seafowla bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc. anseriform birdchiefly web-footed swimming birds coscorobalarge white South American bird intermediate in some respects between ducks and swans cobadult male swan penfemale swan cygneta young swan Cygnus olor, mute swansoundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated Cygnus cygnus, whooper, whooper swancommon Old World swan noted for its whooping call Cygnus columbianus, tundra swanswan that nests in tundra regions of the New and Old Worlds Cygnus buccinator, trumpeter, trumpeter swanlarge pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry Cygnus atratus, black swanlarge Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill screamergooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call storklarge mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage Balaeniceps rex, shoebill, shoebirdlarge stork-like bird of the valley of the White Nile with a broad bill suggesting a wooden shoe ibiswading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills spoonbillwading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon flamingolarge pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes herongrey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill cranelarge long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world Aramus guarauna, courlanwading bird of South America and Central America Aramus pictus, limpkinwading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call Cariama cristata, crested cariama, seriemaBrazilian Cariama; sole representative of the genus Cariama Chunga burmeisteri, chunga, seriemaArgentinian Cariama railany of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud Florida gallinule, Gallinula chloropus cachinnansNorth American dark bluish-grey gallinule Gallinula chloropus, moorhenblack gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes purple gallinulegallinules with showy purplish plumage bustardlarge heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes bustard quail, button quail, button-quail, hemipodesmall quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe; classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains ortyganany of several East Indian birds Pedionomus torquatus, plain wanderersmall Australian bird related to the button quail; classified as wading bird but inhabits plains trumpeterlarge gregarious crane-like bird of the forests of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebirdany of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries coastal diving birdgull family; skimmer family; jaeger family; auk family aukblack-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas puffinany of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills gaviiform seabirdseabirds of the order Gaviiformes podicipitiform seabirdaquatic birds related to the loons pelecaniform seabirdlarge fish-eating seabird with four-toed webbed feet sphenisciform seabirdflightless cold-water seabirds: penguins oceanic bird, pelagic birdbird of the open seas bird warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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