Hard bird word search
Common loon, snowy owl and the Canada jay: a birdwatching grid for older children, keen birders and grandparents. Twenty-eight birds in eighteen by eighteen squares, in every direction.
- Atlantic puffin
- Bald eagle
- Blue jay
- Canada jay
- Cardinal
- Chickadee
- Common loon
- Cormorant
- Downy woodpecker
- Evening grosbeak
- Gannet
- Goldfinch
- Great blue heron
- Great horned owl
- Junco
- Killdeer
- Nuthatch
- Osprey
- Peregrine falcon
- Pine siskin
- Ptarmigan
- Raven
- Red-tailed hawk
- Ruffed grouse
- Sandhill crane
- Snow bunting
- Snowy owl
- Trumpeter swan
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Make your own versionBirds, extra hard
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Find these words
- Atlantic puffin
- Bald eagle
- Blue jay
- Canada jay
- Cardinal
- Chickadee
- Common loon
- Cormorant
- Downy woodpecker
- Evening grosbeak
- Gannet
- Goldfinch
- Great blue heron
- Great horned owl
- Junco
- Killdeer
- Nuthatch
- Osprey
- Peregrine falcon
- Pine siskin
- Ptarmigan
- Raven
- Red-tailed hawk
- Ruffed grouse
- Sandhill crane
- Snow bunting
- Snowy owl
- Trumpeter swan
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About this word search
Several of these birds stand for a province. The Common loon is the provincial bird of Ontario, the Snowy owl represents Quebec, the Great horned owl belongs to Alberta and the Atlantic puffin to Newfoundland and Labrador. The Canada jay, long known as the grey jay or whisky jack, stays in the boreal forest right through the winter.
Most names here are two or three words long, and in the eighteen by eighteen grid they appear as one unbroken string of letters, hidden in all eight directions including backwards. The letter J is rare, so start with Canada jay, Blue jay and Junco, then use the K in Killdeer.
Keen birders can mark which of the twenty-eight they have seen in the wild, and a grandparent with binoculars will have a story for a few of them.
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, students 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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