Across
- 3. black, with deep bills
- 5. Hummingbirds and Swifts
- 6. Short bills, stout bodies, and relatively short legs
- 7. long-legged, long toed, decurved bill, flexible neck
- 8. Slender, pointed wings, diurnal raptor, hooked bill
- 11. Large mouth, tiny bill, mottled brown, white patches on wings/tail
- 12. Long-legged, long-necked, down-turned bills
- 13. another shorebird suborder
- 14. Cuckoos, Anis, and Roadrunner
- 15. Diurnal bird of prey, hooked bill
- 18. Colourful bare skin patch
- 19. fly with outstretched necks, bustle of tertial feathers
- 22. Brightly coloured, long tail, short bill, large eyes
- 23. Small head, bill, and head-bobbing walking style
- 24. Sub-class of living birds, includes the loon
- 25. long tails, crested head, sharp bill
- 27. Chisel-shaped bill, two toes forward and two back, stiff tail feathers
- 29. Hook-billed, round-headed, two toes forward two back
Down
- 1. Large crested head, large bill, small feet, 3rd & 4th toe partly share skin
- 2. Gull order
- 4. Subclass including ducks, geese, swans, and chicken-like birds
- 9. Shorebird Suborder
- 10. Long wings, soaring flight, expels salt through tubular nostrils
- 12. Smaller than loons with longer neck, lobed
- 16. Webbing joins all four toes, hook at bill tip
- 17. suborder: gull, tern, jaegers, skimmers, and alcids
- 20. Two front toes and two back, hooked bills, facial disk
- 21. Generally long-necked, with three webbed toes, and a "duck bill"
- 26. Sharp bill, elongate body, blocky head, 3 webbed toes well back on body
- 28. Living bird class
- 30. Slender, thrush-like bird with long tails and pointed bills