Hard bird word search
Lyrebird, tawny frogmouth and the superb fairywren: a birdwatching grid for older children, keen birders and grandparents. Twenty-eight Australian birds in eighteen by eighteen squares, in every direction.
- Black swan
- Bowerbird
- Brolga
- Butcherbird
- Cassowary
- Corella
- Crimson rosella
- Currawong
- Emu
- Galah
- Gang-gang
- Honeyeater
- Jabiru
- Kookaburra
- Little penguin
- Lyrebird
- Magpie-lark
- Masked lapwing
- Pardalote
- Pelican
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Sacred kingfisher
- Silvereye
- Spoonbill
- Superb fairywren
- Tawny frogmouth
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- Willie wagtail
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionBirds, extra hard
Name
| O | U | E | A | L | L | E | R | O | C | L | A | D | S | N | G | Y | R |
| T | M | M | S | B | I | T | G | P | P | I | B | E | A | T | N | L | E |
| H | E | T | U | G | A | Y | M | Y | E | T | O | I | C | O | A | A | T |
| G | O | A | P | A | T | R | H | N | S | T | W | O | R | R | G | L | A |
| L | T | W | E | D | G | E | T | A | I | L | E | D | E | A | G | L | E |
| Y | C | N | R | R | A | T | I | R | L | E | R | D | D | I | N | E | Y |
| R | U | Y | B | I | W | O | Y | R | V | P | B | D | K | N | A | S | E |
| E | R | F | F | B | E | L | R | U | E | E | I | I | I | B | G | O | N |
| B | R | R | A | R | I | A | A | B | R | N | R | G | N | O | L | R | O |
| I | A | O | I | E | L | D | W | A | E | G | D | A | G | W | L | N | H |
| R | W | G | R | H | L | R | O | K | Y | U | U | L | F | L | I | O | P |
| D | O | M | Y | C | I | A | S | O | E | I | R | A | I | O | B | S | E |
| B | N | O | W | T | W | P | S | O | O | N | I | H | S | R | N | M | L |
| R | G | U | R | U | T | T | A | K | P | R | B | M | H | I | O | I | I |
| O | C | T | E | B | L | A | C | K | S | W | A | N | E | K | O | R | C |
| L | S | H | N | F | O | A | F | F | P | R | J | M | R | E | P | C | A |
| G | N | I | W | P | A | L | D | E | K | S | A | M | E | E | S | L | N |
| A | I | F | I | K | R | A | L | E | I | P | G | A | M | T | E | C | G |
Find these words
- Black swan
- Bowerbird
- Brolga
- Butcherbird
- Cassowary
- Corella
- Crimson rosella
- Currawong
- Emu
- Galah
- Gang-gang
- Honeyeater
- Jabiru
- Kookaburra
- Little penguin
- Lyrebird
- Magpie-lark
- Masked lapwing
- Pardalote
- Pelican
- Rainbow lorikeet
- Sacred kingfisher
- Silvereye
- Spoonbill
- Superb fairywren
- Tawny frogmouth
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- Willie wagtail
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About this word search
Every bird here can be seen in Australia, and several are found nowhere else. The male Bowerbird builds a display of twigs and decorates it with collected objects, with the satin bowerbird famously choosing blue. The Lyrebird copies other birds' calls with startling accuracy, and the Tawny frogmouth, often mistaken for an owl, is not an owl at all.
In this eighteen by eighteen grid the names can run in all eight directions, including backwards. Hyphenated names such as Magpie-lark and Wedge-tailed eagle appear as letters only, so look for one long chain. The double G in the middle of Gang-gang makes it stand out in a crowded row.
Keen birders can tick off the ones they have seen in the wild, and the rest make a handy wish list for the next trip away.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, pupils check their own answers.
At home and on the go
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Play together
Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Italian too
The same theme also exists in Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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