Complete Clue List
Across
1. A common Summer visitor (two words)
8. A white heron
9. Could prefix a warbler or a pigeon
10. In Britain we only see the golden ___
13. Long-tailed tits are not true tits but belong to this closely related family
14. Adjective pertaining to birds
15. To classify, maybe
16. Whooper, Bewicks and mute are three British ___ (plural)
18. A very small brown bird
19. A summer visitor (two words)
21. A small species of wader
25. Birds have both a common and a Latin one of these
26. Raptors tend to be ___ of the food chain
28. Green, great-spotted and lesser-spotted are the three British species of these (plural)
29. The fox is a ___ predator
Down
1. One of the first Summer visitors to arrive each Spring
2. Could be sky, wood or shore
3. European bunting, occasionally seen in Britain
4. As well as
5. A common woodland and garden species (two words)
6. A member of the crow family
7. ___ ___ merganser (two words)
11. A species of sawbill duck
12. A secretive species of heron
13. A favourite prey of ospreys
15. Whitethroat and lesser whitethroat belong to the ___ warbler group
17. An elegant black and white wader
18. Herons and similar long-legged birds are able to ___ in the water
20. A species of finch
22. Birdwatchers use binoculars to get a better one
23. The back of a bird's neck
24. A male bird
27. Usually a night-time hunter