Answer to "Diving birds" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LOONS , but the solution may also be GREBES which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in New York Times).

Diving birds crossword clue answers

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

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
LOONS	45 %	5
AUKS	35 %	4
GREBES	15 %	6
COOTS	2 %	5
SKUAS	2 %	5
ERNS	2 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Diving birds

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

• auks
• murres
• penguins
• diver
• auk
• grebe
• loon
• dipper
• puffin
• fratercula
• anhinga
• cepphus

Crossword Answer definitions

LOONS noun

1. An idler, a lout.
2. A boy, a lad.
3. A harlot; mistress.
4. A simpleton.
5. A crazy or deranged person.
6. An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.

LOONS noun

1. 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 LOONS

• "On Golden Pond" birds
• Daffy ducks?
• Fish-eating diving birds
• Weird-sounding birds
• Batty-sounding birds
• Canadian coins
• Ducks' relatives
• Birds on Canadian coins
• Crackpots
• Nut jobs

More clues leading to the result AUKS

• Razorbills
• Diving birds
• Pretty graceful divers, despite what one might think from their name
• Puffins, e.g.
• Black and white fliers
• Water birds
• Razor-billed birds
• Razor-billed divers
• Penguin lookalikes
• Arctic birds

More clues leading to the result GREBES

• Loons' kin
• Dabchicks and kin
• Divers with floating nests
• Loon relatives
• Diving birds
• Birds that eat feathers.
• Swimming birds.
• Diving birds.
• Devil-divers
• Loon's look-alikes

More clues leading to the result COOTS

• Migratory marsh birds
• Old fools
• Crotchety ones
• Geezers
• Mud hens
• Odd oldsters
• Codgers
• Old geezers
• Old buzzards
• Old fogies

More clues leading to the result SKUAS

• Predatory gulls
• Diving birds
• Gull-like birds.
• Jaeger gulls.
• Jaegers.
• Birds of the gull family.
• Antarctic gulls.
• Gull-like birds
• Penguins' enemies
• Gull-like predators

More clues leading to the result ERNS

• Fish-eating birds
• Marine flyers
• Sea eagles
• White-tailed eagles
• Birds of crosswords
• Coastal raptors often seen in crosswords
• Cousins of the harrier
• Fish eaters
• Predatory birds often seen in grids
• Some eagles