When the long-legged birds are bred together, they never produce offspring with short legs.

Behind her was a folding screen decorated with a painting of long-legged wading birds.

As he spoke, four of the long-legged birds Andy had passed flew boldly in to cluster about the old gentleman.

A spoonbill is a large, long-legged wading bird in the family Threskiornithidae.

The long-legged birds seemed to float free of the earth, blooming miraculously in the tortured air above the plain.

There was an amazing assemblage of big white long-legged birds.

"How they may not look like much, but their touch makes a girl think of long-legged birds."

The seriemas are large, long-legged terrestrial birds that range from 70 to 90 cm.

As he concentrated there was movement in the dense foliage, and three long-legged birds emerged.

Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds of the order Gruiformes.