bird

     

About two ozen - see section below

Trivia about bird

  • Yes, it's really the middle name of his daughter Lynda
  • The iris is a flower & the ibis is one of these
  • The cormorant
  • The titmouse is not a kind of mouse, but a small gray one of these
  • The yellowhammer isn't Alabama's official state tool, it's the official state this
  • Alabama is the "Yellowhammer State", a yellowhammer being one of these
  • The species Oceanites oceanicus isn't a fish but a petrel, one of these
  • The snipe in guttersnipe is one of these creatures that frequent the mud at the edge of a pond
  • An ibex is a goat & an ibis is a species of this
  • The bearded tit
  • Of a wild dog, a rabbit or a bird, what a jackdaw is
  • The oxpecker, which is this type of animal, likes to ride on the backs of giraffes
  • Proverbially, if you eat like one of these avians you might eat over half your body weight everyday!
  • In French, l'oiseau is this; it sports les plumes
  • The cahow, or Bermuda petrel, a type of this, breeds only in Bermuda
  • If you spot a snipe, you've seen this type of creature
  • Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 biopic about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker
  • The reed warbler is this type of creature
  • Charlie Parker
  • The kestrel
  • The African bush shrike is a species of this
  • The cassowary
  • In the name of the deity Quetzalcoatl, coatl refers to a snake & quetzal to this type of creature
  • A big jazz fan, Clint Eastwood directed this 1988 film bio of Charlie Parker
  • The jungle babbler isn't someone who's gone mad in the forest, it's a type of this
  • The auk
  • The title character in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" foolishly kills an albatross, one of these
  • The honeycreeper
  • The kestrel
  • Of a bird, a lizard or a fish, it's what a sand martin is
  • Forest Whitaker played bop legend Charlie Parker in this 1988 biopic
  • A spoonbill is a long-legged one of these with a spoon-shaped bill
  • Constantin Brancusi was noted for his stark sculptures of this kind of animal "in Space"
  • I'm Like a ____ Dog
  • The pintail
  • Fledgling can mean a young or inexperienced person or, in the animal world, one of these
  • Simple Simon thought he could not fail to catch this because he had "a little salt to put upon his tail"
  • The Painted ___on a Wire
  • The rail
  • Mimic thrush
  • Jerzy Kosinski novel set during the Holocaust:"The Painted" this
  • The ptarmigan
  • Charlie Parker