Also called wading bird. any of various large birds having long legs, long necks, and long bills, that are adapted for wading in shallow waters and living on fish, frogs, etc., as the crane, heron, stork, shoebill, ibis, and flamingo.
British. any of various ground-nesting shorebirds of small to moderate size, as the gull, tern, skimmer, phalarope, and plover.
waders, high, waterproof boots used for wading, as by fishermen, duck hunters, or laborers.
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Those were slow, silent, often turbid; flowing over beds of mud into which the incautious wader might sink and vanish unawares.
The Bittern is a wader and a recluse, but once in a while, it appears, he has no objection to a clear platform and dry feet.
A black and white wader, with extremely long red legs; otherwise a gracefully formed bird.
The tracks are not in pairs, so the bird does not belong to the perchers; therefore it must be a wader or a swimmer.
Although he is a wader he wades differently from other birds; and he uses his wings like oars.