The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word COOT which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2011.
Water bird crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| COOT | 22 % | 4 |
| LOON | 16 % | 4 |
| SWAN | 12 % | 4 |
| ERN | 10 % | 3 |
| ERNE | 9 % | 4 |
| HERON | 3 % | 5 |
| PELICAN | 3 % | 7 |
| IBIS | 3 % | 4 |
| TERN | 3 % | 4 |
| OUZEL | 2 % | 5 |
| AVOCET | 1 % | 6 |
| STILT | 1 % | 5 |
| GULL | 1 % | 4 |
| GREBE | 1 % | 5 |
| GOOSE | 1 % | 5 |
| SMEW | 1 % | 4 |
| EGRET | 1 % | 5 |
| COB | 1 % | 3 |
| MALLARDDUCK | 1 % | 11 |
| EIDER | 1 % | 5 |
| BLUEGOOSE | 1 % | 9 |
| GANNET | 1 % | 6 |
| SORA | 1 % | 4 |
| STORK | 1 % | 5 |
| TEAL | 1 % | 4 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Water bird
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- waterbird
- waterfowl
- aquatic bird
- wading bird
- water ouzel
- sea bird
- flying bird
- baby bird
- birdlife
- birdbath
- shore bird
- water snake
Crossword Answer definitions
COOT noun- Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.
- A foolish or eccentric fellow
- (with the) A success; something excellent.
- Body louse (Pediculus humanus).
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 OUZEL
- Diving bird
- European blackbird
- Eurasian blackbird
- European blackbird.
- Blackbird or thrush.
- Thrush.
- Blackbird.
- European thrush
- Blackbird
- Thrush of Europe
More clues leading to the result AVOCET
- Long-legged bird
- Long-legged shore bird
- Shore bird
- Long-legged shorebird
- Stilt cousin with a curving bill
- Curve-billed wader
- Stilt cousin with an upcurved bill
- Pied wader
- Marsh bird
- Leggy shore bird
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 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 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 GOOSE
- Honker
- When you're in trouble, it's cooked
- Pinch
- Bay off Labrador
- Zero, with 101 Down
- Down provider
- Quill supplier
- Skein member
- Foie gras source
- Golden-egg layer
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 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 COB
- Corn eater's leftover
- Male swan
- Kernel holder
- Corn-eater's throwaway
- Pen pal
- Thing held at a corn festival
- Middle ear part?
- Barbecue discard
- Barbecue throwaway
- Corn holder
More clues leading to the result MALLARDDUCK
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 BLUEGOOSE
More clues leading to the result GANNET
- Large seabird
- Seabird related to the booby
- Sea goose
- Kin of the booby.
- Relative of the booby.
- Sea bird.
- Large sea bird.
- Booby bird.
- Water bird.
- Large sea bird
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 STORK
- Baby bringer
- Baby bird?
- Baby shower card image
- Vlasic mascot
- Delivery bird
- Rooftop nester
- Baby flyer
- Junior flyer?
- Baby bringer?
- Baby deliverer?