Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- QUETZAL
- The resplendent quetzal was sacred to the Maya and Aztecs, and the male's tail plumes can run over two feet long.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- HORNBILL
- Hornbills live in Africa and Asia, not the Americas. Many females seal themselves inside a tree cavity to nest, with the male passing food through a small slit.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CASSOWARY
- The southern cassowary can't fly, but it can run through dense forest and jump, and it has a bony helmet called a casque on its head.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- TOUCAN
- The word comes through Portuguese and Spanish from a Tupi name for the bird, tuka.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Toucans & Tropical Birds: a free online word search
A toucans and tropical birds word search, free and printable, with big beaks and bold feathers up in the green canopy.
About Toucans & Tropical Birds
High in the rainforest canopy, the birds are loud before they're ever seen. A toucan's bill can look too heavy to carry, yet it's light and honeycombed inside, and it plucks fruit from branches that would never hold the bird's weight. Down below, the cassowary stalks the forest floor on dinosaur legs, and somewhere a quetzal trails tail feathers longer than its whole body.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft color on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.The level you pick sets those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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