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  1. sparrow
    a small dull-colored singing bird
  2. robin
    a small Old World songbird with a reddish breast
  3. blue jay
    a common bird of eastern North America
  4. cardinal
    a vivid red color
  5. crow
    a black bird having a raucous call
  6. raven
    a large black bird with a straight bill and long tail
  7. chickadee
    a small, grayish songbird with white cheeks and a dark cap and throat
  8. titmouse
    small insectivorous birds
  9. nuthatch
    any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
  10. woodpecker
    a bird with a strong bill that bores into trees for insects
  11. wren
    a small active brown bird of the northern hemisphere
  12. finch
    any of numerous small songbirds with short bills
  13. goldfinch
    American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer
  14. grosbeak
    any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill
  15. oriole
    American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow
  16. starling
    a type of common, sociable bird with dark feathers
  17. grackle
    a long-tailed blackbird with iridescent black feathers
  18. blackbird
    common black European thrush
  19. thrush
    songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
  20. warble
    sing or play with trills
  21. vireo
    any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color
  22. kingbird
    large American flycatcher
  23. flycatcher
    large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing
  24. swallow
    pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
  25. martin
    any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings; migrate around Martinmas
  26. swift
    moving very fast
  27. hummingbird
    a tiny bird that hovers and flies by quickly beating its wings
  28. pigeon
    a large, usually gray and white bird commonly seen in cities
  29. dove
    any of numerous small pigeons
  30. partridge
    heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
  31. quail
    a small game bird
  32. pheasant
    a wild game bird with long narrow tail feathers
  33. grouse
    popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs
  34. turkey
    large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail
  35. ptarmigan
    large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage
  36. loon
    large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
  37. grebe
    small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet
  38. cormorant
    large, dark-colored, long-necked seabird
  39. pelican
    a large waterbird with a large bill and pouch for fish
  40. heron
    a gray or white wading bird with long neck and long legs
  41. egret
    a white waterbird with long legs
  42. bittern
    relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes
  43. crane
    a long-necked wading bird
  44. stork
    a large white waterbird with long legs and a long bill
  45. spoonbill
    wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon
  46. ibis
    wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
  47. flamingo
    a long-necked pink bird that often stands on one leg
  48. swan
    an aquatic bird with a very long neck
  49. goose
    a large long-necked water bird with short feet
  50. duck
    a small bird that swims and lives near water
  51. mallard
    wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended
  52. teal
    a blue-green color or pigment
  53. wigeon
    freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals
  54. pintail
    long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers
  55. shoveler
    a worker who shovels
  56. merganser
    large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
  57. goldeneye
    large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions
  58. bufflehead
    small North American diving duck
  59. ruddy duck
    reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America
  60. canvasback
    North American wild duck valued for sport and food
  61. redhead
    someone who has red hair
  62. scaup
    diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill
  63. eider
    duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females
  64. scoter
    large black diving duck of northern parts of the northern hemisphere
  65. hooded merganser
    small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head
  66. red-breasted merganser
    widely distributed merganser of America and Europe
  67. pied-billed grebe
    American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill
  68. eared grebe
    small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck
  69. great blue heron
    large American heron having bluish-grey plumage
  70. black-crowned night heron
    night heron of both Old and New Worlds
  71. yellow-crowned night heron
    North American night heron
  72. American bittern
    a kind of bittern
  73. least bittern
    small American bittern
  74. little blue heron
    small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere
  75. snowy egret
    small New World egret
  76. cattle egret
    small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals
  77. black-necked stilt
    stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck
Created on Mon Apr 08 09:42:03 EDT 2024

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