Reptilies and Birdies

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic (plural) (7)
  2. 3. Any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming (plural) (7)
  3. 4. Tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills (11)
  4. 6. A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit (6)
  5. 9. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (plural) (7)
  6. 10. Any of numerous small pigeons (4)
  7. 11. Speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas (10)
  8. 15. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)

Down

  1. 2. Fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet (7)
  2. 5. Pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that ___ when shaken (11)
  3. 7. Nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes (3)
  4. 8. Diurnal bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail (4)
  5. 12. Quacking water bird (4)
  6. 13. Brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled (6)
  7. 14. Web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic (5)
  8. 16. Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back (6)