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    A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water. In some definitions, the term water bird is especially...
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    gland. Birds also bathe in water or dust themselves. While some birds dip into shallow water, more aerial species may make aerial dips into water and arboreal...
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    Drinking birds, also known as dunking birds, drinky birds, water birds, or dipping birds are toy heat engines that mimic the motions of a bird drinking...
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    Cormorant (redirect from Shag (bird))
    waters. The original ancestor of cormorants seems to have been a fresh-water bird.[citation needed] They range around the world, except for the central...
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    Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year. It is typically from north to south or...
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    Aequornithes (redirect from Core water bird)
    (/iːkwɔːrˈnɪθiːz/, from Latin aequor, expanse of water + Greek ornithes, birds), or core water birds, are defined in the PhyloCode as "the least inclusive...
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  • The Lakes Water Bird or Waterbird, sometimes known as the Avro Curtiss-type, is remembered as the first consistently successful British seaplane, developed...
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  • Water Birds is a 1952 American short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. In 1953, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) at the 25th...
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    Duck (category Bird common names)
    aquatic birds, and may be found in both fresh water and sea water. Ducks are sometimes confused with several types of unrelated water birds with similar...
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    Anhinga (redirect from Water turkey)
    anhinga), sometimes called snakebird, darter, American darter, or water turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word anhinga comes...
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    British Birds is a natural history book by Thomas Bewick, published in two volumes. Volume 1, Land Birds, appeared in 1797. Volume 2, Water Birds, appeared...
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    Arooj Aftab (redirect from Bird Under Water)
    contemporary classical music internet radio station). Aftab's first album, Bird Under Water, was released independently in 2014. It received critical acclaim from...
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  • "The Gentle Water Bird" (1926) is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson. It was originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 10 April 1926...
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    Little egret (category Birds of Africa)
    a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land...
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    waterways. It is an excellent swimmer and hunts fish, frogs, invertebrates, water birds, and other types of aquatic and amphibious prey. Due to its apparently...
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  • Songs III: Bird on the Water is Marissa Nadler's third full-length studio album, released in March 2007 on Peacefrog Records. It was distributed in the...
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    Anatidae (redirect from Water fowl)
    The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on...
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    African darter (category Birds of Africa)
    The African darter (Anhinga rufa), sometimes called the snakebird, is a water bird of sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq. The African darter is a member of the...
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    40,000 birds have been recorded in the sanctuary during the migratory season every year. The Vedanthangal fresh water lake attracted water birds and the...
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    A bird bath (or birdbath) is an artificial puddle or small shallow pond, created with a water-filled basin, in which birds may drink, bathe, and cool themselves...
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  • (Stock symbol: BBL) Benthic boundary layer, the layer of water at the bottom of a body of water Bird Banding Laboratory Brazilian butt lift, a form of buttock...
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    Pandion is a genus of fish-eating bird of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae. Most taxonomic treatments have regarded this genus...
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  • the freshwater swamp, ideal for water-fowl and resident water birds. Arrangement to pump water from deep tube wells to fill small depressions to save seeds...
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    Dipper (redirect from Water ouzel)
    Greek word kinklos that was used to describe small tail-wagging birds that resided near water. Cinclus is the only genus in the family Cinclidae. The white-throated...
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    Oriental darter (category Birds of Indomalaya)
    The Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed...
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    contact lens in many aquatic birds when they are under water. When sleeping, the lower eyelid rises to cover the eye in most birds, with the exception of the...
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    Moorhen (redirect from Marsh hen (bird))
    Moorhens—sometimes called marsh hens—are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family (Rallidae). Most species are placed in the genus...
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    Little grebe (category Birds of Africa)
    ruficollis), also known as dabchick, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. The genus name is from Ancient Greek takhus "fast" and bapto "to sink...
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    Coot (category Bird genera)
    Coots are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family, Rallidae. They constitute the genus Fulica, the name being the Latin term for...
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    Black-necked grebe (category Birds described in 1831)
    eared grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It was described in 1831 by Christian Ludwig Brehm. Its breeding plumage...
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