Statistics for 9-Letter Birds by Clue

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Huge seabird known to glide over the ocean for extended periods of time	Albatross	80%
Huge flightless bird with a notoriously powerful kick	Cassowary	80%
Tiny cockatoo, extremely popular as a pet	Cockatiel	60%
Shag without a crest	Cormorant	60%
Four and twenty of these were baked in a pie	Blackbird	40%
Courting males construct structures from twigs and decorate them with leaves and flowers	Bowerbird	40%
Adorable and familiar small tit of North America and Scandinavia	Chickadee	40%
Commonly known in Australia as the blue wren	Fairywren	40%
Like the above, but with a bright orange crown stripe	Firecrest	40%
Waterfowl similar to a moorhen or swamphen	Gallinule	40%
Huge, bulky falcon sparsely distributed across North America and Europe	Gyrfalcon	40%
Small, pale gull of far northern latitudes	Kittiwake	40%
Large corvid with blue upperparts and very long tail	Magpie-Jay	40%
Strange duck with a long, thin bill	Merganser	40%
Long-winged nightjar of the Americas	Nighthawk	40%
Gifted in a pear tree	Partridge	40%
Auk-like seabird with a thick, stubby bill	Razorbill	40%
Typical shorebird, usually with a long bill to find food in the sand	Sandpiper	40%
Striking woodpecker of North America	Sapsucker	40%
Long-winged and long-tailed perching swift relative with distinctive crests or whiskers	Treeswift	40%
Rare Hawaiian honeycreeper with bushy frontal crest	Akohekohe	20%
Large, dull goose of taiga and tundra	Bean-Goose	20%
Beautiful stocky finch with a black mask and pale or red underparts	Bullfinch	20%
Large, chocolate-brown ovenbird of South America	Cinclodes	20%
Stocky finch with a huge, uniquely shaped beak	Crossbill	20%
Sombre-looking Australian bird with dark plumage, long beak and yellow eye	Currawong	20%
Large shorebird with a very long straight bill	Dowitcher	20%
Speckled thrush which breeds in Scandinavia and Russia	Fieldfare	20%
Small, stocky, short-tailed parrot of Queensland and New Guinea	Fig-Parrot	20%
Crested bulbul with a stout, yellow bill	Finchbill	20%
Large hummingbird, in which the males have a distinctive orange forehead	Firecrown	20%
Small, predominantly red African waxbill	Firefinch	20%
Large, piscivorous raptor	Fish-Eagle	20%
Large woodpecker with scaled belly and red or golden back	Flameback	20%
Large, quail-like bird	Francolin	20%
Nocturnal bird with a comically large head and bill	Frogmouth	20%
Large, frugivorous cotinga with dark plumage	Fruitcrow	20%
Tiny Eurasian bird with a diagnostic golden stripe on the crown	Goldcrest	20%
Pretty duck known to lay eggs in other females' nests	Goldeneye	20%
Common European finch with distinctive red face	Goldfinch	20%
Philippines equivalent of the above	Guaiabero	20%
Small, slender-billed seabird with bright red legs	Guillemot	20%
Plump, beautifully-coloured babbler of East Asia	Leiothrix	20%
Ground-dwelling bird of Australia and New Guinea in which the female is more colourful than the male	Logrunner	20%
Bird-of-paradise with erectile display fans and iridescent blue breast-shield	Lophorina	20%
Tiny psittacid of the tropical Americas	Parrotlet	20%
Small, chunky heron found across eastern Asia and Madagascar	Pond-Heron	20%
Plump tundra-dwelling bird which is completely white in winter	Ptarmigan	20%
Chunky ground-dwelling pigeon of the Americas	Quail-Dove	20%
Small, grey, sexually dimorphic warbler of inland Australia	Redthroat	20%
Bird-of-paradise which displays on a prominent branch, holding both wings above its head	Riflebird	20%
Dull brown finch with pink markings on the wings and belly	Rosy-Finch	20%
Plump, grouselike bird of South American mountains	Seedsnipe	20%
Slender, short-billed thrush of the Americas	Solitaire	20%
Small- to medium-sized swift named for the thin protrusions extending from the tail feathers	Spinetail	20%
Wading bird with distinctively-shaped bill, closely related to ibises	Spoonbill	20%
Parrot-billed Galapagos finch which comes in three sizes	Tree-Finch	20%
Stocky, boldly marked shorebird	Turnstone	20%
Distinctive waterhen with a frontal shield raised like a crest	Watercock	20%
Small African bird with a fan of bare skin around the eye	Wattle-eye	20%
New Zealand endemic with a distinctively pale head	Whitehead	20%
Predominantly black African weaver	Widowbird	20%
Strange, slender-billed waxbill of central Africa	Antpecker	0%
Small, intricately-marked bird with a long, heavy bill	Antshrike	0%
Elusive, oddly chicken-like passerine of South America	Antthrush	0%
Large, long-billed, yellow-olive Madagascar endemic	Bernieria	0%
Widespread, pied-and-orange finch which breeds in Scandinavia and Russia	Brambling	0%
Large, dark, brilliantly coloured hummingbird	Brilliant	0%
Small, drab dove of the Philippines	Brown-Dove	0%
Pretty quail found in India	Bush-Quail	0%
Brightly-coloured ground-dwelling flycatcher of the Himalayas and Taiwan	Bush-Robin	0%
Large ovenbird with rich chestnut plumage	Cacholote	0%
Rare and possibly extinct tyrant of southeastern Brazil	Calyptura	0%
Relatively small and pale South American ovenbird	Canastero	0%
Large rufous flycatcher found in Brazil and surrounding areas	Casiornis	0%
Handsome European finch with pink-chestnut face and dark cap	Chaffinch	0%
Plain, slim, long-tailed babbler	Chatterer	0%
Plain Old World warbler with over 50 species in the genus	Cisticola	0%
Beautiful large flycatcher of African rocky habitats	Cliff-Chat	0%
Dull, secretive European rail	Corncrake	0%
Widespread, scaly African waxbill	Cut-throat	0%
Small, yellowish warbler closely related to the above	Eremomela	0%
Heavily streaked Australian warbler with a long, cocked tail	Fieldwren	0%
Tiny, elusive rail with puffy tail feathers	Flufftail	0%
Large, dull honeyeater with bare facial skin, known for its loud squawking	Friarbird	0%
Colourful, elegant pigeon of tropical Southeast Asia or Australasia	Fruit-Dove	0%
Small, plain warbler favouring reeds and grasslands	Grassbird	0%
Small, finch-like bird of fields and open woodland	Grassquit	0%
Small, streaked, long-tailed bird of inland Australia	Grasswren	0%
Distinctive bright purple-and-red African waxbill	Grenadier	0%
Unusual brown corvid with large white wing patches	Ground-Jay	0%
Large, crested eagle	Hawk-Eagle	0%
Small Australian warbler with a reddish rump and long, cocked tail	Heathwren	0%
Grey, yellow-billed finch endemic to the Peruvian Andes	Inca-Finch	0%
Andean hummingbird with very long, straight beak	Lancebill	0%
Dark but beautiful Southeast Asian songbird related to the laughingthrushes	Liocichla	0%
Barn-owl with prominent facial disc	Masked-Owl	0%
Hummingbird with an iridescent throat patch and tail	Metaltail	0%
Smoky-grey bird with long tail, shaggy crest and short, stout bill	Mousebird	0%
Australian waterfowl with an erect, chicken-like tail	Nativehen	0%
Distinctive yellowish waxbill of central Africa	Oliveback	0%
Relatively pale, tropical swift	Palm-Swift	0%
Tiny, colourful Australian gem that nests in burrows	Pardalote	0%
Beautiful shorebird known to spin rapidly on water to stir up food	Phalarope	0%
Medium-sized, chocolate brown warbler of far southeastern Australia	Pilotbird	0%
Small African robin with mostly orange underparts	Robin-Chat	0%
Pale Arabian bird resembling a cross between a sparrow, finch and lark	Rockfinch	0%
Sexually dimorphic finch with a pink tinge	Rosefinch	0%
Large hummingbird usually with glossy upperparts, paler underparts and white tail-tips	Sabrewing	0%
Dark, plump, small-billed bird endemic to New Guinea	Satinbird	0%
Either of two rare and elusive ground-dwelling birds of Australia	Scrub-bird	0%
Ground-dwelling megapode of tropical forests	Scrubfowl	0%
Small, drab Australasian warbler that forages near the rainforest floor	Scrubwren	0%
Vaguely-defined type of finch with a thick, conical bill	Seedeater	0%
Unique, distinctive passerine with a sharp bill and speckled plumage	Sharpbill	0%
Small hummingbird with decurved bill and long, forked tail	Sheartail	0%
Dark blue-grey flycatcher of southern India	Sholakili	0%
Small, dark robin of the Himalayas and Southeast Asia	Shortwing	0%
Dark, prominently crested bird with a patch of white behind the eye	Shrikejay	0%
Unique Australian passerine that is the only species in its family	Shrike-tit	0%
Common and widespread white-eye of Australasia	Silvereye	0%
Small, greyish finch of alpine areas	Snowfinch	0%
Small, drab tyrant with a characteristically wide bill	Spadebill	0%
Small, finch-like bird of the Caribbean with marked sexual dimorphism	Spindalis	0%
Small Australian honeyeater with long, decurved bill	Spinebill	0%
Small, stocky flycatcher with dark back and rusty breast	Stonechat	0%
Large, long-billed South African nectar-eater	Sugarbird	0%
Also sometimes known as a stone-curlew	Thick-knee	0%
Tiny brown Australian warbler, or a hummingbird with a short, thin beak	Thornbill	0%
Brown, thick-billed South American ovenbird	Thornbird	0%
Small hummingbird with thin, elongated tail feathers	Thorntail	0%
Small, pied, crested tyrant flycatcher	Tit-tyrant	0%
Large, dark ground-dwelling bird with pale wings	Trumpeter	0%
Medium to large tyrant with entirely brown or chestnut plumage	Twistwing	0%
Beautiful hummingbird named for the purple patch behind the eye	Violetear	0%
Chiming or chirruping bird of inland Australia	Wedgebill	0%
Tiny, thick-billed Australian warbler with a pale face bordered with black	Whiteface	0%
Spectacular hummingbird with forked tail	Woodnymph	0%
Dull grey tyrant widespread from Alaska to Peru	Wood-Pewee	0%
Small, chicken-like bird of Latin America	Wood-Quail	0%