Nat'l. Bird Day

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. No longer active (10)
  2. 6. Young bird especially of domestic fowl (plural) (6)
  3. 8. Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds (5)
  4. 9. A terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal (9)
  5. 12. Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants (9)
  6. 13. Coins collectively (plural) (7)
  7. 15. Oval foods laid by hens (4)
  8. 16. Hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep (4)

Down

  1. 1. Small air-breathing arthropod (plural) (7)
  2. 2. Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings (plural) (5)
  3. 3. A formation of aircraft in ___ (6)
  4. 4. Any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America (9)
  5. 7. One of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope (8)
  6. 10. A small hard fruit (plural) (5)
  7. 11. Any of numerous small pigeons (4)
  8. 14. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (6)