Translation for "ave zancuda" to english

Ave zancuda

noun

• wader
• wading bird

Translation examples

wader noun

—’Crolon…, eres un skorken de las ciénagas mordisqueando a un ave zancuda.
“ ‘Crolon… you’re a swamp skorken nipping at a wader.

Sin embargo, de pronto Louisa señaló la esbelta y elegante ave zancuda y exclamó: —¡Mirad, una gaviota!
And what, Fanny wondered, could have possessed Louisa to point to the slim, elegant wader and cry out: ‘Oh, look, a seagull.’

wading bird noun

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

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

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

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

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.
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.