stork-like

Next was a brown-haired stork-like form, with a boulder for an Adam's apple, and a heavy metal shirt that hung on him like a sleeping bag.

X, Chapter 3: Morowitz Benjamin Matvey 2012

The stork-like Mr. Abele hunches and cowers; he gibbers his text softly, almost breathlessly; Mr. Sales puts up a little more of a fight with his youthful, higher vocal range, but he too lies down to die.

Futility Finds a (Quiet) Voice 2010

Through a grimy square of the window, I see him lift stork-like legs over puddles as he crosses the gray pavement of the courtyard.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

Through a grimy square of the window, I see him lift stork-like legs over puddles as he crosses the gray pavement of the courtyard.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

Based on various of their morphological details, I had concluded that azhdarchids were most likely stork-like generalists that made their living by picking up assorted invertebrates and vertebrates, terrestrial and aquatic.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

Unlike pelicans however, the long toes of the Shoebill are unwebbed and it is stork-like in some aspects of behaviour, practicing bill clattering and also dribbling water onto its eggs and young during the heat of the day.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Thousands of flamingos — those dainty, stork-like birds, with long legs, pink feathers and a distinctive crooked beak — were quietly sifting through the muddy waters of a creek in Mumbai.

The recent "flamingo watch" in Mumbai attracted a large crowd 2008

At the risk of stealing his thunder (sorry Mark), I will say that he, also, is a supporter of the stork-like model.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

Hypothesis 6: azhdarchids were stork-like generalists, picking up assorted invertebrate and vertebrate prey from shallow water and/or terrestrial environments.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

He wrote that ‘Quetzalcoatlus remains have been found far inland where they seem to have been heron - or stork-like in their ecology despite their great size’ (p. 136).

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006