BIRD Themed Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Crane
  2. 5. Nocturnal
  3. 7. This bird can out-run you, but can’t get off the ground
  4. 10. a group of crows
  5. 12. Great-footed hawk
  6. 14. Cyanocitta cristata
  7. 16. New Zealand's fruity emblem
  8. 17. “Flying checker board”
  9. 19. Aquatic bird with distinctive morning call
  10. 23. A type of bird foot where the hallux is behind and the other three toes are in front, as in a thrush
  11. 25. Small songbird with a tin trumpet sounding call
  12. 28. Buteo jamaicensis
  13. 29. Rock dove
  14. 31. The biggest native American waterfowl (two words)
  15. 33. a group of geese
  16. 34. Largest cranes in Asia
Down
  1. 1. Compared to other birds, it has a larger part of the brain for smell
  2. 3. Expandable throat pouch
  3. 4. Harper Lee
  4. 6. summer lawn ornament, especially in Florida
  5. 7. “Fish Hawk”
  6. 8. can fly backwards
  7. 9. Peter-peter-peter song
  8. 11. Turdus migratorius
  9. 13. crossed the road to get away from this joke
  10. 15. White and gray coastal bird
  11. 18. Darwin’s
  12. 20. The study of birds
  13. 21. NYS Bird
  14. 22. Volcanic eruption of May 2023
  15. 24. “____Tape”
  16. 26. tuxedo
  17. 27. Largest flying bird on the west coast
  18. 30. National bird
  19. 32. The national bird of India