9-Letter Birds by Clue

Four and twenty of these were baked in a pie

Gifted in a pear tree

Huge flightless bird with a notoriously powerful kick

Tiny cockatoo, extremely popular as a pet

Common European finch with distinctive red face

Shag without a crest

Huge seabird known to glide over the ocean for extended periods of time

Adorable and familiar small tit of North America and Scandinavia

Beautiful stocky finch with a black mask and pale or red underparts

Typical shorebird, usually with a long bill to find food in the sand

Huge, bulky falcon sparsely distributed across North America and Europe

Striking woodpecker of North America

Courting males construct structures from twigs and decorate them with leaves and flowers

Stocky, boldly marked shorebird

Sombre-looking Australian bird with dark plumage, long beak and yellow eye

Pretty duck known to lay eggs in other females' nests

Common and widespread white-eye of Australasia

Commonly known in Australia as the blue wren

Dull brown finch with pink markings on the wings and belly

Tiny, colourful Australian gem that nests in burrows

Nocturnal bird with a comically large head and bill

Dark, plump, small-billed bird endemic to New Guinea

Large, frugivorous cotinga with dark plumage

Brightly-coloured ground-dwelling flycatcher of the Himalayas and Taiwan

Chunky ground-dwelling pigeon of the Americas

Large shorebird with a very long straight bill

Stocky finch with a huge, uniquely shaped beak

Parrot-billed Galapagos finch which comes in three sizes

Tiny brown Australian warbler, or a hummingbird with a short, thin beak

Large rufous flycatcher found in Brazil and surrounding areas

Large, dark, brilliantly coloured hummingbird

Large, chocolate-brown ovenbird of South America

Long-winged and long-tailed perching swift relative with distinctive crests or whiskers

Small, stocky, short-tailed parrot of Queensland and New Guinea

Philippines equivalent of the above

Colourful, elegant pigeon of tropical Southeast Asia or Australasia

Distinctive yellowish waxbill of central Africa

Plump, beautifully-coloured babbler of East Asia

Small, stocky flycatcher with dark back and rusty breast

Large hummingbird usually with glossy upperparts, paler underparts and white tail-tips

Grey, yellow-billed finch endemic to the Peruvian Andes

Plump tundra-dwelling bird which is completely white in winter

Speckled thrush which breeds in Scandinavia and Russia

Large, long-billed, yellow-olive Madagascar endemic

Small African bird with a fan of bare skin around the eye

Small Australian warbler with a reddish rump and long, cocked tail

Small- to medium-sized swift named for the thin protrusions extending from the tail feathers

Brown, thick-billed South American ovenbird

Tiny psittacid of the tropical Americas

Distinctive bright purple-and-red African waxbill

Large, piscivorous raptor

Pale Arabian bird resembling a cross between a sparrow, finch and lark

Like the above, but with a bright orange crown stripe

Small, pale gull of far northern latitudes

Plain Old World warbler with over 50 species in the genus

Small, yellowish warbler closely related to the above

Small, pied, crested tyrant flycatcher

New Zealand endemic with a distinctively pale head

Small, drab dove of the Philippines

Rare and possibly extinct tyrant of southeastern Brazil

Beautiful large flycatcher of African rocky habitats

Large, dull honeyeater with bare facial skin, known for its loud squawking

Either of two rare and elusive ground-dwelling birds of Australia

Large corvid with blue upperparts and very long tail

Small, drab Australasian warbler that forages near the rainforest floor

Dark but beautiful Southeast Asian songbird related to the laughingthrushes

Bird-of-paradise which displays on a prominent branch, holding both wings above its head

Strange, slender-billed waxbill of central Africa

Auk-like seabird with a thick, stubby bill

Small, greyish finch of alpine areas

Beautiful hummingbird named for the purple patch behind the eye

Pretty quail found in India

Small African robin with mostly orange underparts

Small, drab tyrant with a characteristically wide bill

Small, grey, sexually dimorphic warbler of inland Australia

Andean hummingbird with very long, straight beak

Large, long-billed South African nectar-eater

Small Australian honeyeater with long, decurved bill

Small, dark robin of the Himalayas and Southeast Asia

Strange duck with a long, thin bill

Large, dark ground-dwelling bird with pale wings

Dull, secretive European rail

Slender, short-billed thrush of the Americas

Small, chicken-like bird of Latin America

Ground-dwelling bird of Australia and New Guinea in which the female is more colourful than the male

Hummingbird with an iridescent throat patch and tail

Barn-owl with prominent facial disc

Small, plain warbler favouring reeds and grasslands

Large hummingbird, in which the males have a distinctive orange forehead

Dull grey tyrant widespread from Alaska to Peru

Large woodpecker with scaled belly and red or golden back

Widespread, pied-and-orange finch which breeds in Scandinavia and Russia

Vaguely-defined type of finch with a thick, conical bill

Small hummingbird with decurved bill and long, forked tail

Tiny Eurasian bird with a diagnostic golden stripe on the crown

Small, streaked, long-tailed bird of inland Australia

Unusual brown corvid with large white wing patches

Australian waterfowl with an erect, chicken-like tail

Smoky-grey bird with long tail, shaggy crest and short, stout bill

Widespread, scaly African waxbill

Heavily streaked Australian warbler with a long, cocked tail

Plump, grouselike bird of South American mountains

Small, chunky heron found across eastern Asia and Madagascar

Large ovenbird with rich chestnut plumage

Chiming or chirruping bird of inland Australia

Ground-dwelling megapode of tropical forests

Tiny, thick-billed Australian warbler with a pale face bordered with black

Small, predominantly red African waxbill

Also sometimes known as a stone-curlew

Plain, slim, long-tailed babbler

Bird-of-paradise with erectile display fans and iridescent blue breast-shield

Unique, distinctive passerine with a sharp bill and speckled plumage

Sexually dimorphic finch with a pink tinge

Relatively small and pale South American ovenbird

Waterfowl similar to a moorhen or swamphen

Small, finch-like bird of the Caribbean with marked sexual dimorphism

Small, slender-billed seabird with bright red legs

Beautiful shorebird known to spin rapidly on water to stir up food

Medium to large tyrant with entirely brown or chestnut plumage

Tiny, elusive rail with puffy tail feathers

Large, dull goose of taiga and tundra

Dark, prominently crested bird with a patch of white behind the eye

Dark blue-grey flycatcher of southern India

Unique Australian passerine that is the only species in its family

Predominantly black African weaver

Small hummingbird with thin, elongated tail feathers

Long-winged nightjar of the Americas

Large, crested eagle

Wading bird with distinctively-shaped bill, closely related to ibises

Medium-sized, chocolate brown warbler of far southeastern Australia

Rare Hawaiian honeycreeper with bushy frontal crest

Large, quail-like bird

Relatively pale, tropical swift

Spectacular hummingbird with forked tail

Crested bulbul with a stout, yellow bill

Small, finch-like bird of fields and open woodland

Small, intricately-marked bird with a long, heavy bill

Distinctive waterhen with a frontal shield raised like a crest

Handsome European finch with pink-chestnut face and dark cap

Elusive, oddly chicken-like passerine of South America