Wis forWebbed feet
Many birds and animals that live near water have webbed feet. These creatures have skin stretching between their toes so their feet become little paddles and the animal becomes much better at swimming through the water.
Animals with webbed feet include ducks, swans, geese, seagulls, platypuses, otters, turtles and many, many other birds and animals that can swim.
A wedding is a kind of ceremony that joins two people together in marriage, which means they are going to live together as a couple for a long time afterwards. People getting married usually dress up in very nice clothes for the ceremony. They usually have all their family with them for a party afterwards.
When two people get married, the woman is called a bride and the man is called a groom.
A wedge is a triangular shaped piece of something where one end is very pointy and the opposite side is flat. Wedges are designed to be driven into places by hitting the flat end so the point is driven into a gap.
Wedges are commonly used for keeping doors open, or for driving into blocks of wood to help split them.
Wis forWedge tailed eagle
Scientific name: aquila audax
The wedge-tailed eagle is the largest eagle in Australia, and one of the largest in the world with a wingspan of around 2.5 metres. It eats any animal that is small enough for it to catch, including rabbits, small kangaroos and lambs.
Wedge-tail eagles will also eat dead animals they find, and are commonly seen eating by the roadside eating kangaroos that have been hit by cars.
Weeds are plants growing where you do not want them. When people make a nice garden and plant flowers or vegetables in it, they do not want other plants that they did not plant there. Many weeds are prickly or thorny and do not look nice, which is why people do not want weeds in their gardens.
