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What (who) is Darter - definition

FAMILY OF BIRDS

Snakebird; Anhingidae; Darters; Snake-Bird; Snake-bird; Snake bird; Ptinx; Anhinginae; Plotidae; Plottidae; Plotinae; Plottinae; Ptynginae; Plottus; Plotus; Anhinga (genus)

Darter

·noun One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts.

II. Darter ·noun A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. ·see Etheostomoid.

III. Darter ·noun The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus;

- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. ·see Snakebird.

darter

n.

(Ornith.) Snake-bird.

darter

¦ noun

1. a long-necked bird which spears fish with its long pointed bill. [Genus Anhinga.]

2. a small North American freshwater fish. [Genera Etheostoma and Percina.]

3. a broad-bodied dragonfly which darts out to grab prey. [Libellulidae and other families.]

Wikipedia

Darter

The darters, anhingas, or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae, which contains a single genus, Anhinga. There are four living species, three of which are very common and widespread while the fourth is rarer and classified as near-threatened by the IUCN. The term snakebird is usually used without any additions to signify whichever of the completely allopatric species occurs in any one region. It refers to their long thin neck, which has a snake-like appearance when they swim with their bodies submerged, or when mated pairs twist it during their bonding displays. "Darter" is used with a geographical term when referring to particular species. It alludes to their manner of procuring food, as they impale fishes with their thin, pointed beak. The American darter (A. anhinga) is more commonly known as the anhinga. It is sometimes called "water turkey" in the southern United States; though the anhinga is quite unrelated to the wild turkey, they are both large, blackish birds with long tails that are sometimes hunted for food.

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Examples of use of Darter

1. The law has led to battles over species such as the Northern spotted owl, the snail darter and the red–legged frog.

2. Take the Oriental darter: "When I started, there were 200 nesting pairs," says Kong Vannak, head of the Environmental Research Station in the Prek Toal floating village.

3. Its reproduction rate is slow, and its aggressive nature – and fencing–saber claws – create problems that, say, a snail darter wouldn‘t.

4. In front of one home, '0–year–old Darlene Darter sat at a card table manning a cash box as her daughter, Soozi Worley, organized merchandise on tables she had set up under a shade tree.

5. Brazil’s airforce will invest $100 million to develop the short–range A–Darter type missile in a deal between Brazil’s Mectron and South Africa’s Denel Aerospace, the daily O Estado de Sao Paulo reported, citing air force commander–in–chief Carlos Bueno.