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Birds of Prey

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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

OSPREY
The osprey has a reversible outer toe, letting it grip a slippery fish with two talons forward and two back, the only raptor built quite that way.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
KESTREL
American kestrels can see ultraviolet light, which lets them track the UV-reflective urine trails of voles through a field below.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
THERMAL
Broad-winged hawks famously stack up in 'kettles' of thousands over the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania each September, riding thermals south.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CONDOR
The California condor has a wingspan that can reach nearly 10 feet, one of the widest of any bird in North America.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Birds of prey word search, free and large-print, for everyone who's ever stopped mid-step to watch a hawk hang motionless against the blue.

About Birds of Prey

High above the treeline, a red-tailed hawk locks its wings and rides a column of warm air, a thermal, in slow, effortless circles. Below, the backyard feeders belong to the sparrows and finches, but the sky has its own hierarchy: falcons that stoop at breathtaking speed, ospreys that fold and plunge feet-first into open water, bald eagles that drift over the ridge like living weather vanes. Learning to read their silhouettes, broad-winged and buoyant, or swept-back and built for speed, turns any ordinary afternoon into something wilder.

How to play

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    Find 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.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set 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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