stiltbird

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The stilt or stilt-plover.
• noun plural Wading birds collectively; the grallatorial birds, constituting the old order Grallæ or Grallatores. Also called stilt-walkers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) See stilt, n., 3.

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• noun The stilt, a wading bird.

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• noun long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons