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Any aquatic bird; a water fowl.

The European water ousel, or dipper.

f honey eaters belonging to Anthochæra and allied genera of the family Meliphagidæ. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.

The waxwing.

The wryneck; -- so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

The chaffinch, whose cry is thought to foretell rain. [Prov. Eng.]

A bird that feeds on wheat, especially the chaffinch.

The male of the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

The European goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.]

Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch.

The whidah bird.

See Whidan bird.

The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.

s in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the words may be written separately. This form of expr…

A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.

The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

hed surface for sustaining bodies by its movement through the air; a spread wing, as of a bird.