wading bird

Questions about wading bird

What does wading bird mean?

wading bird means "any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food".

What is another word for wading bird?

Close synonyms include wader. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wading bird a common word?

wading bird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.