watervogel

Definitions of watervogel
  1. noun
    wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water
    synonyms: drijfsijssie
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    drijfsijssie
    freshwater aquatic bird
    Zwaan
    stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
    steltloper, steltlopers, waadvogel
    any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food
    zwemvogel
    chiefly web-footed swimming birds
    schrijverschap
    female swan
    langbeen, ooievaar, uiver
    large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
    ibis
    wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
    lepelaar
    wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
    flamingo
    large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes
    reiger
    grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
    hijskraan, kraan, kraanvogel
    large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world
    ral
    any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
    type of:
    vogel, vogeltje
    warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
  2. noun
    freshwater aquatic bird
    synonyms: drijfsijssie
    see moresee less
    types:
    zwemvogel
    chiefly web-footed swimming birds
    bout, eend
    small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
    ganzenbord
    web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
    type of:
    drijfsijssie
    wading and swimming and diving birds of either fresh or salt water
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