| The downward-curving bill of the bird, the small head, and the swollen knees are all accurate depictions of a wader. |
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| Our efforts will undoubtedly have been of great benefit to the important populations of wader birds on the islands. |
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| These are apt descriptions for that wondrous wader, the Black-crowned Night-Heron. |
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| The Green sandpiper is a small solitary wader which has a long straight beak, a whitish eye ring and eyestripe. |
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| A wader winged away and a rabbit nearly got trodden on as it sheltered under a branch of heather. |
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| Add cloud cover and wind chill, and a prolonged session can become a miserable ordeal for the ill-prepared wader. |
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| They fear that the turbines could kill rare birds such as golden eagles, black-throated divers and species of wader. |
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| For wader enthusiasts each spring provides an opportunity to discover a trip of dotterel. |
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| Often described as looking like a yellowlegs and feeding like a dowitcher, the Stilt Sandpiper is a medium-sized, long-legged wader. |
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| The wader armed with a suitable fly rod is in excellent position to take advantage of this seasonal situation. |
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| The coastal wader chunking a topwater lure on 12-to 14-pound line for trophy speckled trout on an open flat should maintain a loose drag. |
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| To develop a network of sites capable of providing sufficient data for annual monitoring of wader survival rates. |
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| The course gave the delegates an excellent opportunity to learn more about wader catching, ageing and sexing techniques. |
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| Among them were eggs of a rare osprey and of the beloved avocet, the long-legged wader that adorns the R. S. P. B.'s logo. |
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| Knots This wader breeds in the high Arctic but winters on the mudflats of the British Isles. |
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| He wore a cowboy hat, a long-sleeved Western shirt, a bathing suit, and wader boots over neoprene socks: wet wading. |
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| Once, while trying to find shelter in the rugged Scottish Cairngorms, he unexpectedly encountered a wader directly under his feet. |
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| Other members of the team will be drawn from BTO staff who have considerable voluntary interest in wader ringing and wader biology. |
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| To provide annual indices of population parameters for a range of wader species. |
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| Watch wader birds fresh from Siberia and kangaroo joeys fresh from their mother's pouch. |
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| Knowledge of the status of wader populations can provide important information on the wider environment, including the effects of climate change, habitat loss, and degradation of habitat quality. |
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| The Sociable Lapwing is a migratory wader, which breeds in Kazakhstan and southcentral Russia, and winters in southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa. |
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| This region is noted for its viable population of Arabian Gazelle as well as being a habitat for several species, such as the endangered houbara bustard, a species of wader, as a part of its highly diverse avifauna. |
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| Kazim, the man who, in his dark blue trousers and wader boots, searches for bodies, says that he and his colleagues never travel to these beaches. |
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| In addition international colleagues, many of whom have made very useful contributions to the discussions about wader monitoring, will be kept fully informed and involved in the work. |
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| Various species of wader and duck such as the oystercatcher and the gadwall use Slikken van Voorne in the Voordelta as a resting and foraging area. |
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| The Calidrid wader, a critically endangered Red-breasted goose, and Greenland's White-fronted goose are faced with extinction. |
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| Several species of wader were seen in Pwhelli harbour and a number of Spotted Flycatchers were recorded on the hillside above Plas-yn-Rhiw. |
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| In Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park, the Curley Creek Hike leads you past Murray Lagoon, where wader birds fly in from Siberia in late winter and early spring. |
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| Birds like Crab Plovers, a 'fantastically big' black and white wader or shorebird is frequently seen there, Pedersen said. |
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| The Charadriiformes order of birds contains 18 coastal seabird and wader families. |
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| Back home, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a wader that nests on the boggy tundra of northern Canada and Russia, is at Morfa Madryn nature reserve near Llanfairfechan. |
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| It is generally a wader of the rocky shore and uses its short pick-axe bill to lever up small stones so as to feed upon sandhoppers, small crabs and molluscs that lie beneath. |
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