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Birds A-Z

Guess these birds whose names start with each letter A-Z.
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Last updated: January 8, 2017
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First submittedFebruary 6, 2014
Times taken31,287
Average score68.0%
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Clue
Bird
A
It's bad luck for a sailor to kill one
Albatross
B
National animal of the U.S.
Bald Eagle
C
Long-necked waterfowl
and origami subject
Crane
D
Driven to extinction in the 1600's
Dodo
E
Flightless bird of Australia
Emu
F
Pink wading bird
Flamingo
G
A group of them is called a gaggle
Goose
H
Hovering nectar-eater
Hummingbird
I
Sacred to the ancient Egyptians
Ibis
J
Wild bird from which
chickens were domesticated
Junglefowl
K
National animal of New Zealand
Kiwi
L
Songbird that does things
on a whim?
Lark
M
Resembles a crow with black
and white plumage
Magpie
 
Clue
Bird
N
State bird of Hawaii
Nene
O
Largest bird
Ostrich
P
Its spectacular plumage
inspired NBC
Peafowl
Q
Game bird with tasty eggs
Quail
R
Like a crow but larger
Raven
S
Supposedly delivers babies
Stork
T
Gobble gobble
Turkey
U
American rainforest bird with a
large crest to keep it dry
Umbrellabird
V
Famous scavenger
Vulture
W
Pecks at tree trunks to find food
Woodpecker
X
 
 
Y
Bird whose call sounds
like Beethoven's 5th
Yellowhammer
Z
Has black and white stripes
and a bright red beak
Zebra Finch
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Level 23
Mar 24, 2014
Need to accept more spellings for albatross. Fun quiz
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Level 42
May 20, 2015
Why? There's only one correct spelling.
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Level 45
Oct 11, 2015
I thought it had one s.
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Level 72
Jun 19, 2018
If quizzes accept "Charles de Gaul", then they should also accept "albatros".
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Level 66
Jul 4, 2018
why not? That is the better question.
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Level 49
Jul 30, 2023
The Quizmaster doesn't take kindly to those who can't spell.
+3
Level 62
Mar 24, 2014
I tried rook for the R clue and it didn't take. I got all pissy, looked it up on Wikipedia and saw that the rooks are slightly smaller. Well played Jetpunk
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Level 19
Mar 24, 2014
15/25. Birds aren't the first things that pop up into my brain
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Level 46
Jul 12, 2018
Not a birdbrain, are you?
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Level 69
Mar 25, 2014
Doesn't a woodpecker peck tree trunks to build a nest?
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Level 51
Apr 20, 2014
And food.
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Level 25
Nov 17, 2014
no woodpeckers peck trees to build nests and to store food. they eat acorns, worms seeds carrion
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Level 75
Mar 13, 2015
They peck at insects in the bark and worms in wormholes of the trees. They also peck to mark their territory.
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Level 58
Jan 7, 2017
They peck on trees to annoy Walter Lantz.
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Level 84
Jun 9, 2017
They peck on trees because that is woodpecker morse code. They send secret messages that way. I've actually cracked their code and have covertly listened in on some woodpecker conversations. They tell a lot of knock-knock jokes.
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Level 67
Jun 9, 2017
Lordy, I hope there are tapes!
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Level 51
Mar 25, 2014
Tried zebra bird, but couldn't guess the finch part. Guess they're too small to see.
+1
Level 76
Jun 10, 2017
Funny, I tried that first too (just from the description, otherwise I had no clue), then tried common extensions for birds. Didn't have to try hard though as I got it straight on the first attempt. Lucky guess!
+2
Level 67
Mar 27, 2014
I would have gotten the "Y" bird if the clue had been, "The state bird of Alabama," but never having heard its call, I had no idea.
+4
Level ∞
Jan 8, 2017
There are two different yellowhammers. The state bird is not the one with the call that sounds like Beethoven.
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Level 45
Aug 6, 2014
19/25 ones i didn't get were very tricky
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Level 71
May 18, 2015
I wouldn't say magpies and ravens are merely "like" crows, given that they are crows; the word "crow" refers to the genus. I'm guessing you're comparing them with the carrion crow (which a lot of people just refer to as a crow), but a more accurate wording would be "A type of crow with black and white plumage" or "A large species of crow".
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Level 78
Dec 22, 2020
I thought this, and then checked. Corvidae is a family which contains crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers.
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Level 83
Aug 11, 2015
Do Yellowhammers sound like Beethoven's fifth? I always thought they went "Little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese" whereas Beethoven's 5th goes something like "Da-da-da-DAAA".
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Level 83
Jul 18, 2016
My mistake. It turns out that yellowhammer is used as a name for two different sorts of birds.
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Level 71
Jun 9, 2017
I've not heard a yellowhammer's song before, but blue tits definitely sound like Beethoven's Fifth.
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Level 82
Sep 22, 2016
The many flamingos I saw in the extreme south of Patagonia would beg to differ with this quiz on being designated 'tropical'. Well they would if they could talk and had any concept of such things. But yeah, some flamingos may be found in the tropics, but the majority of their range is outside the tropics and in some cases waaaaay outside the tropics.
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Level ∞
Jan 8, 2017
Good to know! Removed tropical from the clue.
+1
Level 82
Jun 11, 2017
They can be also seen in Cyprus and probably further north. Though is quite warm even in winter, it's nut exactly in the tropics.
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Level 74
Jun 2, 2017
You'll accept umbrellabird, but not umbrella cockatoo?
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Level 44
Sep 11, 2020
Umbrella cockatoo - no such bird (unless you are referring to freaks among cage birds!)
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Level 45
Jun 9, 2017
Umbrella Bird. WTF?
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Level 73
Jun 9, 2017
Turkey is in Asia!
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Level 85
Nov 17, 2022
But what about Cyprus?
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Level 37
Jun 9, 2017
If you haven't watched storks, which I haven't you might not get S
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Level 89
Jun 9, 2017
I haven't seen it and I still got it.
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Level 76
Feb 22, 2018
The stork-delivery story has been around for more than 100 years. Even if you never heard it in real life, you could've learned it from, say, watching Dumbo in the 1940s.
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Level 66
Jun 9, 2017
zizizizizizi zeee – sounds more like a rusty bike chain than Beethoven's 5th to me.

For x you could look if you can find a good clue for a Xenops. It would probably be the least guessed of all these but at least you'd have a bird for every letter.

Oh, and cranes are waterfowl? That's news to me.

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Level 31
Jun 9, 2017
Shouldn't pheasant work as well?
+3
Level 47
Jun 9, 2017
NBC logo wasn't inspired by a pheasant
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Level 39
Jun 9, 2017
Nightime, DAYTIME!
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Level 68
Jun 10, 2017
Dang, I typed in junglehen, but sadly no. I just missed 3.
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Level 61
Jun 13, 2017
Only got z as we kept them when I was a child, after my sister found one in the shed.
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Level 76
Feb 22, 2018
I saw "spectacular plumage" and immediately tried "Parrot." When it didn't work, I tried to figure out what else I could call the Norwegian Blue that would start with "P," and then the rest of the clue sunk in.
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Level 34
Jul 22, 2018
X should be Xenops.

South American bird that starts with an X.

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Level 75
Feb 4, 2020
I completely guessed umbrellabird, thinking is was ridiculous and would never be correct. Knowledge or luck, right is right!
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Level 67
Apr 14, 2022
Yellowhammer, that would be "a little bit of bread and nooooo cheese!" Or maybe, "Bauer miet mich, Bauer, miet mich!" Beethoven's Fifth, that did not ring a bell!
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Level 83
Jun 25, 2023
As I also discovered a bit too late, the word 'Yellowhammer' refers to more than one species of bird.
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Level 69
Jul 12, 2022
Cranes are not actually waterfowl. Waterfowl are synonymous with birds of the order anseriformes, whereas cranes are in the order gruiformes.
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Level 36
Mar 4, 2024
Yeah, cranes are in the water, but they aren't fowl
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Level 74
Dec 28, 2022
Gobble gobble :)