stilt

With the utmost caution he came over the high sedges on his stilt-like legs to the brink of the creek and posed.

These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.

The stilt breeds as far north as eastern Oregon, but is little seen north of southern California in the winter.

You notice that, unlike those stilt-walkers, the herons, the flamingoes have webbed feet.

But he said he would do his best to run out the remainder on a stilt.