The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LOON which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Diving bird crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LOON | 43 % | 4 |
| AUK | 25 % | 3 |
| GREBE | 20 % | 5 |
| SMEW | 3 % | 4 |
| COOT | 3 % | 4 |
| MURRE | 2 % | 5 |
| TERN | 1 % | 4 |
| OSPREY | 1 % | 6 |
| OUZEL | 0 % | 5 |
| WATEROUZEL | 0 % | 10 |
| ERNE | 0 % | 4 |
Why may LOON be the right solution?
The answer "LOON" fits the clue "diving bird" because loons are birds known for their diving abilities to catch fish underwater.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Diving bird
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- seabird
- wildfowl
- birdcatching
- marsh harrier
- birdwatching
- grebe
- bird chorus
- gamebird
- twitch
- nesting
- birds of australia
- game bird
Crossword Answer definitions
LOON noun- An idler, a lout.
- A boy, a lad.
- A harlot; mistress.
- A simpleton.
- A crazy or deranged person.
- An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.
- Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry.
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 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 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 GREBE
- Loon kin
- Diving bird
- Loon relative
- Aquatic bird similar to a loon
- Freshwater diver
- Pied-billed bird
- Dabchick, for one
- Diving waterbird
- Four-toed diving bird.
- Diving bird.
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 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 MURRE
- Large auk
- Arctic diver
- Cliff-nesting auk
- Diving bird
- Arctic diving bird
- The razor-billed auk.
- Narrow-billed auk.
- Relative of the auk.
- Diving bird.
- Auk.
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 OSPREY
- Fish hawk
- Fish-eating hawk
- Hawk with a fish diet
- Fish-eating raptor
- Feathered fish-eater
- Chesapeake Bay hawk
- Hawk which nests near water
- Military aircraft named after a sea hawk
- Hawk family member
- Chesapeake Bay nester
More clues leading to the result OUZEL
- Diving bird
- European blackbird
- Eurasian blackbird
- European blackbird.
- Blackbird or thrush.
- Thrush.
- Blackbird.
- European thrush
- Blackbird
- Thrush of Europe