Bird Basics
This bird is known for delivering babies in fairy tales.
What is a stork?
This yellow cartoon canary is always outsmarting Sylvester the cat.
Who is Tweety Bird?
A group of crows is called this spooky name.
What is a murder?
If you’re early, you get the worm—at least according to this popular saying.
What is “The early bird catches/gets the worm”?
The bald eagle is the national bird of this country.
What is the USA?
Big Bird lives on this famous street.
What is Sesame Street?
These birds are known for living in groups called “gaggles.”
What are geese?
When someone reveals a secret, we say they did this.
What is “spilled the beans” OR “let the cat out of the bag”? → Wait, for birds… it’s “a little bird told me.”
Penguins live mostly in this part of the world.
What is the Southern Hemisphere / Antarctica?
This speedy Looney Tunes bird always says “meep meep!”
Who is the Road Runner?
This giant bird of the African savanna is the world’s fastest runner on two legs.
What is an ostrich?
A baseball team from St. Louis is named after this red bird.
What are the Cardinals?
This bird can mimic human speech.
What is the Parrot OR Magpie?
This type of bird delivers letters in the Harry Potter series.
What is an Owl?
This long-legged wading bird is the national bird of the Bahamas.
What is the flamingo?
This mythical bird is said to rise from the ashes.
What is a phoenix?
This world’s smallest bird flaps its wings up to 80 times per second.
What is a Hummingbird?
This extinct bird from Mauritius was large, flightless, and famously unlucky.
What is the Dodo?
Known as the “sea parrot,” this black-and-white bird has a colorful beak and lives in the North Atlantic.
What is the puffin?
If something is very easy, people might say it’s as easy as this bird-related food.
What is “a piece of cake” OR “easy as pie”? (bird version = “like shooting fish in a barrel” but let’s keep it: “like duck soup.”)