Translation for "wading-bird" to spanish

Wading-bird

noun

• ave zancuda

Translation examples

ave zancuda noun

~ Are you a wading bird?
- ¿Qué eres, un ave zancuda?

“Could be a wading bird.”
-Podría ser un ave zancuda.

Possibly it was, perhaps, a wading bird of some sort.
Lo más probable es que fuera un ave zancuda de algún tipo.

He had kept his characteristic wading-bird-like appearance: tall, lean and slightly stooped.
Langeland conservaba su aspecto de ave zancuda: alto, delgado y levemente encorvado.

It was hard work for some of them not to be left behind as he walked on with his great strides of a long-shanked wading bird, along the incredible path he chose for them this time, one that was a trail neither for pack animals nor for cangaceiros; he led them, rather, straight across a wild desert of cactus, tangled scrub brush, and rough stones.
A algunos les costaba trabajo no quedar rezagados por sus trancos de ave zancuda, en la inverosímil ruta por la que los llevaba esta vez, una ruta que no era trocha de acémilas ni sendero de cangaceiros, sino desierto salvaje, de cactos, favela y pedruscos.