Birds Word Search — Printable & Free
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Words to find
- CUCKOO
- FEATHER
- PARROT
- PENGUIN
- PHEASANT
- PIGEON
- SEAGULL
- SWALLOW
- SWAN
- WOODPECKER
Solved Every word found
Keyboard: arrows to move, Enter to start a word, arrows to extend, Enter again to confirm, Esc to cancel.
Raptors, songbirds, seabirds and exotic species fly through these grids made for budding bird-watchers.
The words range from species seen at a winter feeder to those you only meet at the zoo or in documentaries. Bird names are rich in sounds, and hunting for their spelling, with double letters and unusual endings, is a good way to remember them.
This birds word search has three levels, easy, medium and hard, with sizes from 8×8 to 20×20. Easy runs words left to right or top to bottom, medium adds diagonals, and hard allows all eight directions, backwards included. Every grid is generated and then checked automatically by software, and each word is placed exactly once.
The words in this theme
With the French translation, or a short definition: handy for French immersion or a bilingual class.
- EAGLE l'aigle
- HAWK la buse
- ROBIN le merle d'Amérique
- SPARROW le moineau
- CROW la corneille
- RAVEN le corbeau
- PIGEON le pigeon
- SWAN le cygne
- HERON le héron
- PELICAN le pélican
- PENGUIN le manchot
- FLAMINGO le flamant
- PARROT le perroquet
- TOUCAN le toucan
- PEACOCK le paon
- WOODPECKER le pic
- SEAGULL la mouette
- FALCON le faucon
- VULTURE le vautour
- STORK la cigogne
- CARDINAL le cardinal
- FINCH le pinson
- FEATHER la plume
- SWALLOW l'hirondelle
- CUCKOO le coucou
- PHEASANT le faisan
Suggested school level
Grades 1-4 (ages 6-10): easy 8×8 or 10×10; grades 5-6 move to medium.
Classroom activity idea
Set up a feeder near the classroom window and log the visitors for a few days. Each student then finds the observed names in the grid and sketches the bird beside it. Print different grids for the whole group (1, 5, 10 or 30 copies); the answer key allows fast checking.
Classroom use is allowed: print as many copies as your students need, free of charge, with no sign-up.
Many bird names share endings, so after finding one, scan its surroundings: a similar word often sits right beside it.