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Hint
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Answer
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Four and twenty of these were baked in a pie
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Blackbird
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Gifted in a pear tree
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Partridge
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Huge flightless bird with a notoriously powerful kick
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Cassowary
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Tiny cockatoo, extremely popular as a pet
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Cockatiel
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Common European finch with distinctive red face
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Goldfinch
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Shag without a crest
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Cormorant
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Huge seabird known to glide over the ocean for extended periods of time
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Albatross
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Adorable and familiar small tit of North America and Scandinavia
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Chickadee
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Beautiful stocky finch with a black mask and pale or red underparts
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Bullfinch
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Typical shorebird, usually with a long bill to find food in the sand
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Sandpiper
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Huge, bulky falcon sparsely distributed across North America and Europe
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Gyrfalcon
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Striking woodpecker of North America
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Sapsucker
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Courting males construct structures from twigs and decorate them with leaves and flowers
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Bowerbird
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Stocky, boldly marked shorebird
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Turnstone
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Sombre-looking Australian bird with dark plumage, long beak and yellow eye
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Currawong
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Pretty duck known to lay eggs in other females' nests
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Goldeneye
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Common and widespread white-eye of Australasia
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Silvereye
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Commonly known in Australia as the blue wren
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Fairywren
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Dull brown finch with pink markings on the wings and belly
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Rosy-Finch
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Tiny, colourful Australian gem that nests in burrows
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Pardalote
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Nocturnal bird with a comically large head and bill
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Frogmouth
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Dark, plump, small-billed bird endemic to New Guinea
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Satinbird
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Large, frugivorous cotinga with dark plumage
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Fruitcrow
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Brightly-coloured ground-dwelling flycatcher of the Himalayas and Taiwan
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Bush-Robin
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Chunky ground-dwelling pigeon of the Americas
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Quail-Dove
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Large shorebird with a very long straight bill
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Dowitcher
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Stocky finch with a huge, uniquely shaped beak
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Crossbill
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Parrot-billed Galapagos finch which comes in three sizes
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Tree-Finch
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Tiny brown Australian warbler, or a hummingbird with a short, thin beak
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Thornbill
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Large rufous flycatcher found in Brazil and surrounding areas
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Casiornis
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Large, dark, brilliantly coloured hummingbird
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Brilliant
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Large, chocolate-brown ovenbird of South America
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Cinclodes
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Long-winged and long-tailed perching swift relative with distinctive crests or whiskers
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Treeswift
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Small, stocky, short-tailed parrot of Queensland and New Guinea
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Fig-Parrot
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Philippines equivalent of the above
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Guaiabero
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Colourful, elegant pigeon of tropical Southeast Asia or Australasia
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Fruit-Dove
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Distinctive yellowish waxbill of central Africa
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Oliveback
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Plump, beautifully-coloured babbler of East Asia
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Leiothrix
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Small, stocky flycatcher with dark back and rusty breast
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Stonechat
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Large hummingbird usually with glossy upperparts, paler underparts and white tail-tips
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Sabrewing
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Grey, yellow-billed finch endemic to the Peruvian Andes
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Inca-Finch
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Plump tundra-dwelling bird which is completely white in winter
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Ptarmigan
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Speckled thrush which breeds in Scandinavia and Russia
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Fieldfare
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Large, long-billed, yellow-olive Madagascar endemic
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Bernieria
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Small African bird with a fan of bare skin around the eye
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Wattle-eye
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Small Australian warbler with a reddish rump and long, cocked tail
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Heathwren
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Small- to medium-sized swift named for the thin protrusions extending from the tail feathers
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Spinetail
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Brown, thick-billed South American ovenbird
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Thornbird
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Tiny psittacid of the tropical Americas
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Parrotlet
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Distinctive bright purple-and-red African waxbill
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Grenadier
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Large, piscivorous raptor
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Fish-Eagle
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Pale Arabian bird resembling a cross between a sparrow, finch and lark
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Rockfinch
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Like the above, but with a bright orange crown stripe
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Firecrest
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Small, pale gull of far northern latitudes
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Kittiwake
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Plain Old World warbler with over 50 species in the genus
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Cisticola
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Small, yellowish warbler closely related to the above
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Eremomela
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Small, pied, crested tyrant flycatcher
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Tit-tyrant
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New Zealand endemic with a distinctively pale head
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Whitehead
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Small, drab dove of the Philippines
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Brown-Dove
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Rare and possibly extinct tyrant of southeastern Brazil
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Calyptura
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Beautiful large flycatcher of African rocky habitats
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Cliff-Chat
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Large, dull honeyeater with bare facial skin, known for its loud squawking
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Friarbird
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Either of two rare and elusive ground-dwelling birds of Australia
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Scrub-bird
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Large corvid with blue upperparts and very long tail
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Magpie-Jay
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Small, drab Australasian warbler that forages near the rainforest floor
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Scrubwren
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Dark but beautiful Southeast Asian songbird related to the laughingthrushes
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Liocichla
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Bird-of-paradise which displays on a prominent branch, holding both wings above its head
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Riflebird
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Strange, slender-billed waxbill of central Africa
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Antpecker
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Auk-like seabird with a thick, stubby bill
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Razorbill
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Small, greyish finch of alpine areas
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Snowfinch
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Beautiful hummingbird named for the purple patch behind the eye
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Violetear
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Pretty quail found in India
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Bush-Quail
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Small African robin with mostly orange underparts
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Robin-Chat
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Small, drab tyrant with a characteristically wide bill
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Spadebill
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Small, grey, sexually dimorphic warbler of inland Australia
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Redthroat
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Andean hummingbird with very long, straight beak
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Lancebill
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Large, long-billed South African nectar-eater
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Sugarbird
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Small Australian honeyeater with long, decurved bill
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Spinebill
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Small, dark robin of the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
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Shortwing
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Strange duck with a long, thin bill
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Merganser
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Large, dark ground-dwelling bird with pale wings
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Trumpeter
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Dull, secretive European rail
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Corncrake
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Slender, short-billed thrush of the Americas
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Solitaire
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Small, chicken-like bird of Latin America
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Wood-Quail
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Ground-dwelling bird of Australia and New Guinea in which the female is more colourful than the male
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Logrunner
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Hummingbird with an iridescent throat patch and tail
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Metaltail
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Barn-owl with prominent facial disc
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Masked-Owl
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Small, plain warbler favouring reeds and grasslands
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Grassbird
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Large hummingbird, in which the males have a distinctive orange forehead
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Firecrown
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Dull grey tyrant widespread from Alaska to Peru
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Wood-Pewee
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Large woodpecker with scaled belly and red or golden back
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Flameback
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Widespread, pied-and-orange finch which breeds in Scandinavia and Russia
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Brambling
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Vaguely-defined type of finch with a thick, conical bill
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Seedeater
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Small hummingbird with decurved bill and long, forked tail
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Sheartail
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Tiny Eurasian bird with a diagnostic golden stripe on the crown
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Goldcrest
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Small, streaked, long-tailed bird of inland Australia
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Grasswren
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Unusual brown corvid with large white wing patches
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Ground-Jay
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Australian waterfowl with an erect, chicken-like tail
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Nativehen
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Smoky-grey bird with long tail, shaggy crest and short, stout bill
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Mousebird
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Widespread, scaly African waxbill
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Cut-throat
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Heavily streaked Australian warbler with a long, cocked tail
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Fieldwren
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Plump, grouselike bird of South American mountains
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Seedsnipe
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Small, chunky heron found across eastern Asia and Madagascar
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Pond-Heron
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Large ovenbird with rich chestnut plumage
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Cacholote
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Chiming or chirruping bird of inland Australia
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Wedgebill
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Ground-dwelling megapode of tropical forests
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Scrubfowl
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Tiny, thick-billed Australian warbler with a pale face bordered with black
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Whiteface
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Small, predominantly red African waxbill
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Firefinch
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Also sometimes known as a stone-curlew
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Thick-knee
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Plain, slim, long-tailed babbler
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Chatterer
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Bird-of-paradise with erectile display fans and iridescent blue breast-shield
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Lophorina
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Unique, distinctive passerine with a sharp bill and speckled plumage
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Sharpbill
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Sexually dimorphic finch with a pink tinge
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Rosefinch
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Relatively small and pale South American ovenbird
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Canastero
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Waterfowl similar to a moorhen or swamphen
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Gallinule
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Small, finch-like bird of the Caribbean with marked sexual dimorphism
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Spindalis
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Small, slender-billed seabird with bright red legs
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Guillemot
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Beautiful shorebird known to spin rapidly on water to stir up food
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Phalarope
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Medium to large tyrant with entirely brown or chestnut plumage
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Twistwing
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Tiny, elusive rail with puffy tail feathers
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Flufftail
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Large, dull goose of taiga and tundra
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Bean-Goose
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Dark, prominently crested bird with a patch of white behind the eye
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Shrikejay
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Dark blue-grey flycatcher of southern India
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Sholakili
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Unique Australian passerine that is the only species in its family
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Shrike-tit
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Predominantly black African weaver
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Widowbird
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Small hummingbird with thin, elongated tail feathers
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Thorntail
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Long-winged nightjar of the Americas
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Nighthawk
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Large, crested eagle
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Hawk-Eagle
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Wading bird with distinctively-shaped bill, closely related to ibises
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Spoonbill
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Medium-sized, chocolate brown warbler of far southeastern Australia
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Pilotbird
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Rare Hawaiian honeycreeper with bushy frontal crest
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Akohekohe
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Large, quail-like bird
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Francolin
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Relatively pale, tropical swift
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Palm-Swift
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Spectacular hummingbird with forked tail
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Woodnymph
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Crested bulbul with a stout, yellow bill
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Finchbill
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Small, finch-like bird of fields and open woodland
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Grassquit
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Small, intricately-marked bird with a long, heavy bill
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Antshrike
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Distinctive waterhen with a frontal shield raised like a crest
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Watercock
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Handsome European finch with pink-chestnut face and dark cap
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Chaffinch
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Elusive, oddly chicken-like passerine of South America
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Antthrush
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