Hard bird word search
Chickadee, mockingbird and the great horned owl: a birdwatching grid for older children, keen birders and grandparents. Twenty-eight birds in eighteen by eighteen squares, in every direction.
- Bald eagle
- Barn owl
- Blue jay
- Cardinal
- Chickadee
- Cormorant
- Goldfinch
- Grackle
- Great horned owl
- Hummingbird
- Kestrel
- Killdeer
- Loon
- Meadowlark
- Mockingbird
- Nuthatch
- Oriole
- Osprey
- Pelican
- Peregrine falcon
- Puffin
- Red-tailed hawk
- Roadrunner
- Sandpiper
- Starling
- Whip-poor-will
- Wild turkey
- Wren
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
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Find these words
- Bald eagle
- Barn owl
- Blue jay
- Cardinal
- Chickadee
- Cormorant
- Goldfinch
- Grackle
- Great horned owl
- Hummingbird
- Kestrel
- Killdeer
- Loon
- Meadowlark
- Mockingbird
- Nuthatch
- Oriole
- Osprey
- Pelican
- Peregrine falcon
- Puffin
- Red-tailed hawk
- Roadrunner
- Sandpiper
- Starling
- Whip-poor-will
- Wild turkey
- Wren
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About this word search
Several birds here are named for their voices. The Whip-poor-will calls its own name at night, the Chickadee does much the same by day, and the Killdeer cries something close to its name as it runs across a gravel lot or a ball field.
Expect long strings in this eighteen by eighteen grid, such as PEREGRINEFALCON and GREATHORNEDOWL. Words go in all eight directions, backwards included. Two entries end in OWL, so a find of those three letters is worth checking twice.
Keen birders can mark the ones they have seen themselves. The Roadrunner, a ground-running cuckoo of the Southwest, is a prize for anyone outside the desert states, and a Loon on a northern lake is another one to brag about.
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
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or a family vacation. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
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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