### animal | vertebrate | bird | wader | ibis:

Wood stork
* Most wood storks capture prey.
* Most wood storks eat fish
  - small fish
  - make noise
* Wood Storks look stiff and clumsy on the ground but are stately and graceful in the air.
* are big eaters and during the breeding season require huge amounts of food
  - distributed from South Carolina to southern South America
  - occasional
  - social animals
  - some of the largest wading birds inhabiting South Carolina
  - tall, white denizens of freshwater or brackish wetlands and swamps
  - the only stork in North America
  - wetland birds
* breeding in the United States are at the northern end of the species' range.
* have long, skinny legs and a long, curved beak
  - techniques
* is an ibis
* like to roost and feed together.
  - their nests in the tops of tall trees, and they live in colonies
* use the massive beak as their source of food gathering.
* wander widely during the fall and winter.

Oystercatcher
* Many Oystercatchers remain near the breeding grounds and hope for better weather.
* also nest in the dunes.
* are birds
  - equal-opportunity mate usurpers
  - noisy during flight
  - shore birds
  - shorebirds
* often nest on small rocky islets away from most predators.
* specialize on clams and other bivalves.

Phalarope
* Some phalaropes probably live for ten or more years.
* are among a handful of bird species that reverse the role of the sexes
  - visual hunters

Pratincole
* are short-legged insect feeders, which feed on the wing much like swallows.
* have four toes, short bills and legs, long, pointed wings, and forked tails.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | wader:

Sandpiper
* All sandpipers have fairly long wings and a short tail.
  * have long bodies and legs, and narrow wings. Most species have a narrow bill, but otherwise the form and length are quite variable. They are small to medium sized birds, measuring cm in length. The bills are sensitive, allowing the birds to feel the mud and sand as they probe for food. They generally have dull plumage, with cryptic brown, grey, or streaked patterns, although some display brighter colours during the breeding season.
* are bands
  - films
* eat amphipods and marine worms.
* forage the cool wet sand.
* generally find their food by touch, probing wet sand or mud with their bills.
* have long bodies and legs , and narrow wings.
* poke their beaks just below the surface to feast on the organisms that live there.
* scavenge on the forested bay shore.
* scurry along the water's edge and cormorants, gulls, and pelicans fly along the water.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | wader | sandpiper:

Reeve
* are ruff.
* calls an object made up of particles a fuzzy object.

Spotted sandpiper
* are polyandrous-meaning females mate with more than one male.
* bob and dip their tails conspicuously, like the Louisiana waterthrush.

Shore bird
* Many shore birds have long, thin probing bills.
* are abundant at low tide
  - most common during late spring and early fall
  - wild animals
* gather in large numbers along the coast.

Snipe
* are gunfire
  - uncommon in Vermont, but in the West Rutland marsh they seem to be everywhere
* have long beaks for probing in mud and water to find worms and other small animals.
* live down below and can occasionally be see emerging from small hatches in the main deck.
* removes the eye of a victim and carries it around on the end of a pen.
* step through the shallow waters pecking at the shellfish and worms of the flats.

### animal | vertebrate | bird | wader | snipe:

Dowitcher
* are medium sized shorebirds which closely resemble the common snipe.
* nest in grass or moss tundra, wet meadows, and bogs in boreal forests.