water birds
Ducks and geese
Water birds are birds that live on or near bodies of water—oceans, lakes, rivers, marshes.
The category includes ducks, geese, herons, pelicans, gulls, and many others adapted for swimming, wading, or diving.
Also written as one word: waterbirds.
- cormorantFish-diving seabird
- egretWhite wading bird
- grebeFreshwater diving bird
- duckWaterbird that quacks
- duck pondSmall water body for waterfowl
webbed feet · flamingo · spoonbill · long legs · mallard · heron · sandpiper · plover · migratory species · nesting colony · streamlined shapes · pelican · loon · swan · ibis · puffin · stork · gull
- wetlandsswamp, swamps, marsh, marshes, marshland
- river wetlandsfloodplains, marshes, marshland, marshlands, riverbanks
- freshwater sciencefreshwater lakes, lake management, lake depth, dissolved oxygen, thermocline
ecological niche/feeding behavior
water birdsraptors
Carnivorous birds of prey
birds of prey · songbirds · granivores · insectivores · perching birds