crane vs wading bird

crane and wading bird both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crane	Yes	No	Yes	No
wading bird	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wading bird is a hypernym of crane; that is, wading bird is a word with a broader meaning than crane:

crane: large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world
wading bird: any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food

Other hypernyms of crane include wader.

crane (noun)	wading bird (noun)
large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world	any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food
lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis

crane (verb)	wading bird (verb)
stretch (the neck) so as to see better