Answer to "Bird" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word ERN , but the solution may also be Prefix which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).

Bird crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
ERN	6 %	3
EMU	6 %	3
EGRET	6 %	5
ORIOLE	4 %	6
RAVEN	4 %	5
RAIL	4 %	4
KITE	4 %	4
WREN	3 %	4
ANI	3 %	3
OWL	3 %	3
DAW	3 %	3
LOON	3 %	4
ERNE	3 %	4
DOVE	2 %	4
TERN	2 %	4
NESTER	2 %	6
SWAN	2 %	4
TANAGER	2 %	7
ROOK	1 %	4
CROW	1 %	4
HEN	1 %	3
SORA	1 %	4
SPARROW	1 %	7
VIREO	1 %	5
OSTRICH	1 %	7
SERIN	1 %	5
SMEE	1 %	4
JAY	1 %	3
GULL	1 %	4
PIE	1 %	3
PHEASANT	1 %	8
HERON	1 %	5
EIDER	1 %	5
STORK	1 %	5
SQUAB	1 %	5
MINA	1 %	4
Prefix	1 %	6
AUK	1 %	3
CUCKOO	1 %	6
IBIS	1 %	4
OWLET	1 %	5
LARK	1 %	4
ROOSTER	1 %	7
SHAG	0 %	4
NESTLING	0 %	8
WHIPPOORWILL	0 %	12
JACKDAW	0 %	7
SNIPE	0 %	5
FLAMINGO	0 %	8
ORNIS	0 %	5
SMEW	0 %	4
MAGPIE	0 %	6
ARARA	0 %	5
CRANE	0 %	5
FLIERINBADMINTON	0 %	16
FOWL	0 %	4
WOODCOCK	0 %	8
FLYER	0 %	5
TITMOUSE	0 %	8
EMEU	0 %	4
MARTIN	0 %	6
COOT	0 %	4
WAXWING	0 %	7
CHICK	0 %	5
STILT	0 %	5
COCK	0 %	4
SAGEHEN	0 %	7
CARDINAL	0 %	8
GROSBEAK	0 %	8
ONEFINGERSALUTE	0 %	15
SEEDEATER	0 %	9
KIWI	0 %	4
PIET	0 %	4
SHUTTLECOCK	0 %	11
CHAT	0 %	4
TEAL	0 %	4
STARLING	0 %	8
PELICAN	0 %	7
MYNA	0 %	4
OUSEL	0 %	5
MEADOWLARK	0 %	10
SEADOVE	0 %	7
MOA	0 %	3
BALTIMOREORIOLE	0 %	15
ROBIN	0 %	5
ELANET	0 %	6
AIRPLANE	0 %	8
MACAW	0 %	5
WOODPECKER	0 %	10
WARBLER	0 %	7
SKUA	0 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Bird

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• chick
• fowl
• birdwatch
• birdie
• raspberry
• snort
• bronx cheer
• skirt
• shuttle
• doll
• hiss
• hoot

Crossword Answer definitions

ERN noun

1. A sea eagle (Haliaeetus), especially the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
2. An eagle.

ERN verb

1. To run; flow.
2. To (cause to) coagulate; curdle (milk) by adding rennet and applying heat.

ERN verb

1. To stir with strong emotion; grieve; mourn.
2. To pain; torture.
3. (of the eyes) To cause to water; smart.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result ERN

• West ender?
• East or west end
• Fish eating bird
• Fish-eating bird
• Sea bird
• Sea eagle
• Directional suffix
• East ender
• North end
• Common crossword flier

More clues leading to the result EMU

• Flightless bird
• Australian bird
• Big bird
• Bird that's a source of red meat
• Ostrich kin
• Outback bird
• Rhea relative
• The new meat?
• Cassowary relative
• Edible ratite

More clues leading to the result EGRET

• Heron
• Everglades bird
• Marsh bird
• Okefenokee flier
• Plumed bird
• Plumed heron
• White heron
• White-plumed bird
• Plumed wader
• Bird whose scientific name is Ardea alba

More clues leading to the result ORIOLE

• Baltimore bird
• Baltimore pro
• Camden Yard player
• Baseball bird
• Yankee vanquisher, in 2014
• Black-and-orange bird
• Black-and-orange flyer
• Ripken was one
• Baltimore baseballer
• Eddie Murray, e.g.

More clues leading to the result RAVEN

• Poe bird
• Bird in an 1845 poem
• Subject of a work by 56A
• "9. I wrote a paper in college on Poe's 'The ___' exclusively using just the footnotes!"
• Kind of black
• "Nevermore" sayer
• Bird of Odin
• Baltimore footballer
• "Nevermore" utterer
• Portentous bird

More clues leading to the result RAIL

• Fencing unit
• Shipping choice
• Symbol of thinness
• Third __ (power source)
• Balustrade
• Banister
• Marsh bird
• It's on the inside track
• The third one might shock you
• Complain, complain, complain

More clues leading to the result KITE

• Springtime flier
• Southern raptor
• Toy with a tail
• 1992 US Open winner Tom
• Franklin's testing device
• High flier
• Toy used on a windy day
• Certain bird of prey
• High flyer
• Windy-day toy

More clues leading to the result WREN

• Brown bird
• St. Paul's Cathedral designer
• Architect and bird
• Marsh bird
• Small songbird
• Songbird
• St. Paul's Cathedral architect
• Architect Christopher
• Bird with speckled eggs
• Brown songbird

More clues leading to the result ANI

• "Wheel Of Fortune" purchase
• Blackbird
• Crossword cuckoo
• Cuckoo
• Folksinger DiFranco
• Violinist Kavafian
• Black cuckoo
• Cuckoo-like bird
• Long tailed blackbird
• Puzzler's bird

More clues leading to the result OWL

• Nocturnal bird
• Pussycat partner
• "The ___ And The Pussycat"
• Noiseless flier
• Nocturnal flier
• Nocturnal one
• Saw-whet
• Spotted or barn
• Temple mascot
• Wise one

More clues leading to the result DAW

• "See, Saw, Margery __"
• Crow's cousin
• Grackle
• Black bird
• European crow
• Margery of rhyme
• "See-saw, Margery ___"
• Crow's chimney-nesting cousin
• Margery of nursery rhymes
• Thieving flyer

More clues leading to the result LOON

• Diving bird
• Guard of the Nibelung treasure
• Minnesota state bird
• Golden Pond bird
• Crazy fowl
• "Crazy" bird
• Complete nut
• Fish-eating bird
• Web-footed bird
• Canadian coin bird

More clues leading to the result ERNE

• Coastal flier
• Water bird
• It's a bird!
• Sea eagle
• Seabird
• Seagull
• Ship follower?
• Shore bird
• Marine aviator
• Piscivorous bird

More clues leading to the result DOVE

• Peace symbol
• Peace sign
• Did a half gainer
• Brand in the bathroom or the candy aisle
• Dial alternative
• Peacenik's animal
• Pigeon's kin
• Pacifist
• Warmonger's foe
• Peace advocate

More clues leading to the result TERN

• Aquatic bird
• Diving bird
• Gull kin
• Seagull
• Forked-tailed flier
• Graceful bird
• Sea swallow
• Forktailed marine bird
• Gull
• Gull friend

More clues leading to the result NESTER

• Homesteader
• Brood developer
• Empty __
• Bird, at times
• Empty ___
• Bird building a home
• Empty ___ (parent without kids living at home)
• Many a bird
• Mama bird
• Bird who builds

More clues leading to the result SWAN

• __ song (final performance)
• Graceful bird
• Song or dive preceder
• Tchaikovsky's "__ Lake"
• "___ Lake"
• Graceful swimmer
• The Ugly Duckling, really
• Trumpeter, for one
• Pen that swims
• The ugly duckling, actually

More clues leading to the result TANAGER

• It may be scarlet
• Scarlet bird
• Usually scarlet bird
• Brightly colored songbird
• Cousin of the honeycreeper
• Scarlet ___: songbird
• Colorful bird
• Small singer
• "Scarlet" bird
• Honeycreeper's relative

More clues leading to the result ROOK

• Castling requirement
• Cheat
• Versification
• Chess piece
• Kasparov's piece
• One of Deep Blue's men
• He guards the corner of the chessboard
• Corner piece
• Castling piece
• Rank-and-file chess piece

More clues leading to the result CROW

• Brag
• It's eaten in humiliation
• Montana tribe
• Those with egg on their face eat it
• Blow one's own horn
• Boast
• Exult loudly
• Humiliating entree
• Black bird
• Roosters do it

More clues leading to the result HEN

• Biddy
• Layer
• __ fruit
• Female pheasant
• Ex-egg, perhaps
• Producer of 44A
• Soup maker?
• Coop biddy
• Female octopus
• Female lobster

More clues leading to the result SORA

• American rail
• Shy estuarine bird
• Rail bird
• Shy, estuarine bird
• Rail
• Small marsh bird
• Rail in a marsh
• Common rail
• North American rail
• Short-billed marsh bird

More clues leading to the result SPARROW

• Line of nautical poles?
• Small finch
• Small bird
• Pirate played by Johnny Depp
• Common songbird
• Songbird
• Bird seen in cities
• Small songbird
• "The Little ___" (Piaf's nickname)
• Captain Jack played by Johnny Depp

More clues leading to the result VIREO

• Red-eyed bird
• Olive-green bird
• Small songbird
• Olive-green songbird
• Small green bird
• Insectivorous bird
• Red-eyed songbird
• Insect-eating songbird
• Sweet-singing bird.
• Bird.

More clues leading to the result OSTRICH

• Emu's cousin
• Big bird
• Head hider
• Largest living bird
• Bird that lays the largest egg
• Savanna grazer
• Leather source
• Bird with a strong kick
• Fast-running bird
• Runner with big eggs

More clues leading to the result SERIN

• Small finch
• Canary cousin
• Canary's close kin
• European finch
• Bird in the finch family
• Canary kin
• Canary relative
• European songbird
• European finch.
• Small finch.

More clues leading to the result SMEE

• Hook sidekick
• Hook's henchman
• Hook's sidekick
• One of Captain Hook's men
• "Peter Pan" pirate
• Duck found in crossword puzzles
• Hook's mate
• Duck often found in crossword puzzles
• Hook hand
• Captain Hook's henchman

More clues leading to the result JAY

• First Chief Justice John ___
• Rival of David
• Toronto ballplayer, for short
• Conan replaced him, for a time
• Letter before 43-Across
• Press secretary Carney
• Stand-up comic Mohr
• The Great Gatsby
• Johnny's successor
• America's first chief justice

More clues leading to the result GULL

• Coastal aquatic bird
• Sea bird
• Aquatic bird
• Wading bird with a harsh call
• Beach frequenter
• Deceive
• Seaside scavenger
• Beach scavenger
• Tern's cousin
• It soars over shores

More clues leading to the result PIE

• Easy dessert
• Stooge missile
• Thanksgiving feast finale
• Apple or peach
• Chart shape
• Don McLean's "American __"
• Quiche, essentially
• Trivial Pursuit piece
• Apple or pizza creation
• Cream confection

More clues leading to the result PHEASANT

• Game bird
• Long-tailed game bird
• Ring-necked bird
• Bird served "under glass"
• Game for a pointer.
• Ring-necked or golden.
• Bird
• Game for hunters
• Gallinaceous bird
• It's often served under glass

More clues leading to the result HERON

• Egret's kin
• Egret, for one
• Wading bird
• Bittern, e.g.
• Bayou bird
• Marsh bird
• Bird with an almost 6 foot wingspan
• Bittern cousin
• Egret cousin
• Marsh denizen

More clues leading to the result EIDER

• Big duck
• Black and white duck
• Down source
• Duck
• Goose down
• You want this duck's down
• Down home?
• You can get down from it?
• Source of soft down
• Winter coat material

More clues leading to the result STORK

• Baby bringer
• Baby bird?
• Baby shower card image
• Vlasic mascot
• Delivery bird
• Rooftop nester
• Baby flyer
• Junior flyer?
• Baby bringer?
• Baby deliverer?

More clues leading to the result SQUAB

• Bird on fancy menus
• Pigeon meat
• Fowl entree
• Young pigeon
• Nestling pigeon
• Fledgling pigeon
• Four-week-old pigeon
• Dark meat delicacy
• Young 54-Across
• Unfledged pigeon

More clues leading to the result MINA

• Winona's role in "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
• One-named Italian pop singer
• __ Harker, heroine in Stoker's "Dracula"
• "Dracula" heroine
• Jonathan's wife in "Dracula"
• About 2 pounds in Greece.
• Feminine name.
• Oriental talking bird.
• Greek weight.
• Diminutive of a girl's name.

More clues leading to the result Prefix

• Homo or trans
• In or out, at times
• Part of a word.
• Pro- or con-
• Attach before
• Anti or semi, e.g.
• Tri for one
• Pre is one
• Add beforehand
• "Anti" or "semi," e.g.

More clues leading to the result AUK

• Guillemot
• Sea bird
• Diving bird
• Razorbill
• Arctic diver
• Razor-billed bird
• Puffin cousin
• Arctic bird
• Penguin lookalike
• Razorbilled bird

More clues leading to the result CUCKOO

• Bananas
• Bird with an onomatopoeic name
• Bird in a clock
• Long-tailed bird
• Foolish
• Feature of some clocks
• Buggy
• Bird.
• Clock feature.
• Kind of clock.

More clues leading to the result IBIS

• Stork relative
• Storklike bird
• Wading bird
• Hieroglyphics bird
• Stork-like bird
• Stork-like wader
• Leggy wader
• Nile bird
• Sacred bird of the Nile
• Heron cousin

More clues leading to the result OWLET

• Little hooter
• Young hooter
• Hooter's hatchling
• Young barn bird
• Nocturnal fledgling
• Baby bird
• Baby with big eyes
• Barn baby
• Hooter with Terrible Towel (5)
• Strigine babe

More clues leading to the result LARK

• Prank
• Whimsical adventure
• Songbird
• "I'm as happy as a ___"
• Fancy
• Good clean fun
• Whim
• Frolic
• Gambol
• Exalation member

More clues leading to the result ROOSTER

• Early riser
• Farm alarm
• Morning crower
• Nature's alarm clock
• Combed crower
• Alarm cock
• Henhouse big shot
• Farm alarm?
• One might give you a rude awakening
• Wake-up call provider

More clues leading to the result SHAG

• Dance of the '30s
• Moplike 'do
• Type of rug
• '30s dance
• Carpet of the 60's
• Long-fiber rug
• 1930's dance
• Uneven hairdo
• Type of carpet or dance
• Thick carpet

More clues leading to the result NESTLING

• Chick
• Young bird
• Baby robin, e.g.
• Aviary newborn
• Baby birdie
• Robin's offspring
• Small bird
• Baby bird
• Fledgling.
• Very young child.

More clues leading to the result WHIPPOORWILL

• Night bird
• Bird.
• Nocturnal bird with an onomatopoeic name
• Nightjar's kin

More clues leading to the result JACKDAW

• Crow's cousin
• European crow
• Bird.

More clues leading to the result SNIPE

• Bushwhack
• Make malicious remarks
• Marsh bird
• __ at (malign)
• Assail
• Game bird
• Shoot from above
• Take potshots
• Gossip maliciously
• Sandpiper kin

More clues leading to the result FLAMINGO

• Goose on stilts?
• Pink wading bird
• Pinkish wader
• Kitschy lawn figure
• Long-legged bird
• Lawn decoration, maybe
• Pink bird
• Crane's cousin
• Aquatic bird
• Long-legged pink bird

More clues leading to the result ORNIS

• Birdlife
• Bird life of a region
• Avifauna
• Bird life of a region.
• An avifauna.
• Avifauna.
• All the birds of a certain region.
• Avifauna or bird.
• Birdlife of a region.
• All the birds of a region.

More clues leading to the result SMEW

• Fish-eating duck
• Diving duck
• White merganser
• Sawbill, e.g.
• Merganser
• Duck also called white nun
• Small diving duck
• Old World duck
• Fish-eating Eurasian duck
• Eurasian diving duck

More clues leading to the result MAGPIE

• Noisy bird
• Heckle or Jeckle, e.g.
• Heckle or Jeckle of cartoondom
• Mischievous bird
• Chatterbox
• Chatty flier
• Member of the crow family
• One of the crows
• Crow cousin
• Proverbial chatterer.

More clues leading to the result ARARA

• Macaw
• Macaw.
• Palm cockatoo.
• Brilliantly colored macaw.
• Large parrot with long tail.
• Cockatoo.
• Australian parrot.
• Brazilian macaw.
• Brazilian parrot.
• Large parrot.

More clues leading to the result CRANE

• Hoisting machine
• Large wading bird
• Wrecking-ball swinger
• Wading bird
• Frasier's last name
• Construction-site sight
• Wetlands whooper
• Classic origami piece
• Poet Hart __
• Egg-layer that whoops?

More clues leading to the result FLIERINBADMINTON

• Bird

More clues leading to the result FOWL

• Game boys?
• Game bird
• Chickens and turkeys
• Barnyard birds
• Poultry
• Chickens, e.g.
• Flying game
• Barnyard bird
• Feathered friend
• They're game?

More clues leading to the result WOODCOCK

• Bird
• Snipe's kin

More clues leading to the result FLYER

• Reminder for a show, e.g.
• Campaign handout
• Ad placed on windshields, etc.
• Small handbill
• It's posted around the neighborhood
• Circular
• Professional hockey player in orange, black, and white
• Candidate's handout
• Philadelphia hockey player
• Handbill

More clues leading to the result TITMOUSE

• Chickadee relative
• It's not a rodent
• Chickadee, e.g.
• Cousin of the nuthatch.
• Chickadee.
• Small bird.
• Small bird
• Bird
• Tufted tweeter
• Insect-eating bird

More clues leading to the result EMEU

• Aussie bird, once
• Outback ratite
• Aussie bird
• Feathery friend of Australia.
• Fleet-footed bird.
• Australian ratite bird: Var.
• Kin of the ostrich.
• Ostrich: Var.
• Cousin of the cassowary: Var.
• Relative of the rhea: Var.

More clues leading to the result MARTIN

• He had a dream
• Luther or Landau
• Actor Sheen
• Chris from Coldplay
• Bird like 63 Across
• With 32 Across, square figure
• Big name in guitars
• Frasier's dad
• Hannah's "Roxanne" costar
• With 38-Across, "Psycho" actor

More clues leading to the result COOT

• Crotchety one
• Scoter
• Geezer
• Marsh hen
• Swimming bird to which weird old people might be compared
• Curmudgeon
• Foolish old man
• Diving bird
• Aquatic avian
• Eccentric oldster

More clues leading to the result WAXWING

• Bird.

More clues leading to the result CHICK

• Clutch member
• One that comes through in the clutch?
• Farm peeper
• She'll come out of her shell soon enough
• Hen party topic?
• Coop tyke
• Farm youngster
• Hen-to-be
• Brood member
• Peeper

More clues leading to the result STILT

• Clown booster
• Clown support
• Support post
• Leg extender
• Beach-house support
• One of a raising pair
• Certain house supporter
• Clown's height enhancer
• Tall person's nickname
• Marsh bird

More clues leading to the result COCK

• Rooster
• Tilt to one side
• Member
• Turn up jauntily
• Prepare to shoot
• Prepare to fire
• Tilt
• Bull's partner
• Wake-up-call issuer of a sort
• *Ready for firing

More clues leading to the result SAGEHEN

• Female grouse
• Plump-bodied grouse
• Certain female grouse
• Pomona College player
• Game bird.
• Native of Nevada.
• Nevada grouse.
• Grouse.
• Bird.
• Western plains bird.

More clues leading to the result CARDINAL

• Stanford team
• 72 on Dan Dierdorf's jersey is an example of a ___ number
• One, two, or three
• Papal appointment
• Bright red bird
• St. Louis baseballer
• What Patrick Joseph Hayes became, March 1924.
• Bright-red, crested songbird.
• Member of the "Gashouse Gang."
• Yvars or Musial.

More clues leading to the result GROSBEAK

• Kind of finch
• Brightly colored finch
• Cardinal bird.
• Finchlike bird.
• Finch.
• Relative of the bullfinch.
• Bird
• Rose-breasted bird
• Evening bird
• Evening bird, perhaps

More clues leading to the result ONEFINGERSALUTE

• Bird

More clues leading to the result SEEDEATER

• Bird feeder feeder
• Finch variety
• Bird.
• Small tropical finch
• Finch, for one
• Practically any bird, e.g.

More clues leading to the result KIWI

• Emu's kin
• Fuzzy fruit
• Bird whose male hatches the eggs
• Shoe-polish name
• Non-flying fowl
• New Zealand bird
• Green fruit
• National symbol of New Zealand
• New Zealander
• New Zealand fruit

More clues leading to the result PIET

• Dutch garden designer Oudolf
• Painter Mondrian
• Artist Mondrian
• Geometric painter Mondrian
• Dutch artist Mondrian
• Neoplasticism artist Mondrian
• Modern artist Mondrian
• Soma Cube inventor Hein
• The magpie.
• Like a magpie.

More clues leading to the result SHUTTLECOCK

• Badminton need
• BIRD
• Badminton prop
• Birdie
• It has feathers and may be airborne
• *Feathered flyer that's sliced and shot

More clues leading to the result CHAT

• Bit of a gabfest
• Internet conversation
• Internet room
• On-line discussion
• Shoot the breeze
• Chew the fat
• Room on-line
• Converse
• On-line conversation
• Schmooze in cyberspace

More clues leading to the result TEAL

• Greenish blue
• River duck
• Shade of blue
• Bluish green
• Freshwater duck
• Mallard cousin
• Blue green
• Dabbling duck
• Ducky color?
• Blue-green

More clues leading to the result STARLING

• Gregarious Old World bird
• Passerine bird
• Bird with dark plumage
• Gregarious bird
• Common bird
• Bird that is often a pest
• Bird
• Myna's cousin
• Black bird
• Songbird with dark, iridescent plumage

More clues leading to the result PELICAN

• Large-billed bird
• Big-billed bird
• Bird of Louisiana
• Bird in a John Grisham title
• Bird with a pouch
• Big-beaked bird
• Louisiana's state bird
• Bird in a Grisham title
• Louisiana's state bird, e.g.
• Louisiana license plate image

More clues leading to the result MYNA

• Parrot-like bird
• Talking passerine
• Underage bird?
• Pet bird
• Talkative starling
• Avian mimic
• Bird talented at mimicry
• Feathered talker of Asian origin
• Talkative bird
• Mimicking bird

More clues leading to the result OUSEL

• Thrushlike diving bird
• European thrush
• Montana's __ Falls
• Bird.
• Blackbird.
• Thrushlike bird.
• European blackbird.
• Bird that can walk under water.
• Thrush or blackbird.
• Thrush.

More clues leading to the result MEADOWLARK

• Yellow-breasted songbird
• State bird of Wyoming
• Montana's state bird is one
• Drink + bird + boat
• American songbird
• Grackle relative
• Songbird.
• Bird
• Songbird
• Singer with a black V-shaped collar

More clues leading to the result SEADOVE

• Bird also called a black guillemot
• Bird.
• Small, short-billed auk
• Bird also known as a little auk
• Little auk, by another name
• Little auk
• Short-billed auk

More clues leading to the result MOA

• Bygone bird
• Extinct New Zealand bird
• Extinct ostrich
• Flightless New Zealander
• Extinct bird
• Extinct ostrich relative
• Kiwi's extinct relative
• New Zealand ratite
• Ostrich's cousin
• Old bird of New Zealand

More clues leading to the result BALTIMOREORIOLE

• Babe Ruth, for three months in 1914
• Babe Ruth, in 1914
• Camden Yards pro
• Camden Yards sight
• Maryland fowl?
• Bird who runs home?
• Black-and-orange bird
• Camden Yards player
• Bird.
• Bird with a title

More clues leading to the result ROBIN

• Sign of spring
• Red-breasted songbird
• Chris O'Donnell's "Batman Forever" role
• Burt Ward role
• Batman's sidekick
• Tuck's leader
• HLN anchor Meade
• Merry Men's leader
• Connecticut's state bird
• Michigan's state bird

More clues leading to the result ELANET

• Kite bird
• Genus of kite.
• Small kite.
• Kite.
• Hawklike bird.
• American white-tailed kite.
• Hawk's relative.
• Bird of prey.
• Bird of the hawk family.
• Bird.

More clues leading to the result AIRPLANE

• Paper construction in study hall
• High flyer
• Movie with the line "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"
• 1980 Leslie Nielsen film title!
• American flyer
• It makes touchdowns
• 50-Down movie
• "Spruce Goose", e.g.
• "Bird"
• Skydiver's jumping-off point

More clues leading to the result MACAW

• Large parrot
• Brilliantly plumed bird
• Brilliantly-plumed parrot
• Colorful parrot
• Strong-billed bird
• Showy parrot
• Blu of "Rio," e.g.
• Harsh-voiced bird
• Bird with a harsh voice
• Large bird with a loud scream

More clues leading to the result WOODPECKER

• See 17 Across
• Sapsucker cousin
• Flicker.
• Noisy bird
• Bird
• Boring thing to hear?
• Noisy tree climber
• Woody, e.g.

More clues leading to the result WARBLER

• Songbird
• Canary, at times
• Redstart or yellowthroat.
• Cape May ___
• Bird

More clues leading to the result SKUA

• Antarctic predator
• Large sea gull
• Arctic seabird
• Seabird of the arctic
• Predatory shorebird
• Predatory seabird
• Predatory Arctic bird
• Gull-like bird
• Arctic gull
• Jaeger