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Avocet vs Ibis - What's the difference?

avocet | ibis |

As nouns the difference between avocet and ibis

is that avocet is any of four species of wading birds in the genus recurvirostra , of the family recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet while ibis is (wading bird).

avocet

English

(wikipedia avocet)

Alternative forms

* avoset

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra , of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.

    • Derived terms

    * American avocet, Recurvirostra americana * Andean avocet, Recurvirostra andina * pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta * red-necked avocet, Recurvirostra novaehollandiae

    See also

    * stilt

    Anagrams

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    ibis

    English

    (wikipedia ibis)

    Noun

  • Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
  • *
    • It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.

    Derived terms

    * Australian white ibis * sacred ibis * (straw-necked ibis)