Waterfowl: alternatives and connections

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently subm…

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The…

larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing

A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.

large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy s…

A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, bein…

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

One who lives on confines, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor.

A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.

A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.

small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom

a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans

To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rive…

Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants.

An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice.

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.

In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heave…