Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (plural)
- 1 Across
- Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (plural)
- 3 Across
- Tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills
- 4 Across
- A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
- 6 Across
- Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (plural)
- 9 Across
- Any of numerous small pigeons
- 10 Across
- Speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas
- 11 Across
- Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body
- 15 Across
- Fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet
- 2 Down
- Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that ___ when shaken
- 5 Down
- Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
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- Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
- 8 Down
- Quacking water bird
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- Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled
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- Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic
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- Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back
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