Spread Your Wings... It's Time for a Birds Crossword!

How to Play This Online Word Puzzle?

• 1Click on a picture, and enter the letters of the matching word! If you fill in the word correctly, it will be validated automatically!
• 2Click on the "Check grid" button to see if you made mistakes and to mark incorrect letters in red.
  
• 3Use the Tabulator key on your keyboard to move to the next word in the crossword puzzle grid.
  
• 4Use the arrow keys on your keyboard, to move to the next or previous cell.
  
• 5Use the Delete or Backspace keys on your keyboard to clear a filled cell in the grid.
  
• 6To accomplish your mission and reach the final victory, find all the words in this online crossword game! Good luck!

What Makes a Bird a Bird?

Birds come in an astonishing variety of shapes, sizes and colors. Some spend much of their time on water, others move between tree branches, and many travel through the air. Despite these differences, all living birds share one remarkable feature that no other modern animal has: feathers.

Birds are also vertebrates, have beaks rather than teeth, and reproduce by laying eggs. Their bodies have evolved in many different directions depending on where they live and how they find food, which helps explain why two birds can look dramatically different while still belonging to the same major animal group.

More Than Just Flying

Flight may be the ability most strongly associated with birds, but it does not define them. Some species cannot fly at all, while others are extraordinary long-distance travelers. Wings can also serve purposes beyond ordinary flight, including balance, display and movement through water.

For birds that do fly, several features help make movement through the air possible. Feathers create aerodynamic surfaces, powerful muscles move the wings, and lightweight body structures help reduce the energy required. Different wing shapes are suited to different styles of flight, from rapid maneuvering to long periods of gliding.

Beaks Built for Different Jobs

One of the easiest differences to notice between birds is the shape of the beak. A bird's diet and feeding behavior can influence whether its beak is long, short, broad, narrow, curved or pointed. Looking closely at this feature can therefore provide clues about how an unfamiliar bird might find and eat its food.

Birds also occupy an enormous range of habitats. To explore wildlife through a geographical theme instead, young players can visit our Australian Wildlife Word Puzzle or try the Underwater Animals Word Puzzle for a completely different branch of animal life.

Ten Feathered Clues

This crossword brings together ten distinctive birds in one colorful scene. Differences in beaks, plumage, body shape and size provide useful visual clues, while the grid turns recognition into an English vocabulary and spelling activity. Some answers are short and familiar, while others require considerably more letters.

Look closely at each illustration, recall the English name and use the crossing letters when a word proves difficult. With ten feathered characters scattered around the grid, there is plenty for young bird watchers and word puzzlers to discover.